Bug 367991 – dev-libs/redland-1.0.10-r1 - ld: cannot find -licui18n

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description BT 2011-05-19 05:59:58 UTC]

I get the following message when I run 'emerge --depclean'.

*   dev-libs/icu-4.6.1 pulled in by:
*     dev-libs/redland-1.0.10-r1 needs libicudata.so.46, libicui18n.so.46, libicuuc.so.46

I tried running 'revdep-rebuild --library libicuuc.so.46', but that didn't help.

To see what was pulling in dev-libs/icu I ran 'equery d dev-libs/icu', which showed the following.

dev-db/sqlite-3.7.5 (icu? dev-libs/icu)
dev-lang/php-5.3.6 (intl? dev-libs/icu)
dev-libs/boost-1.42.0-r2 (icu? >=dev-libs/icu-3.3)
dev-libs/libxml2-2.7.8 (icu? dev-libs/icu)

The above packages have the icu and intl use flags disabled by default, so they aren't pulling in dev-libs/icu. I believe it was pulled in by www-client/chromium, which I have since removed.

To resolve the issue I tried removing dev-libs/icu and then emerging dev-libs/readland, but that resulted in a build failure.

[Comment 1 BT 2011-05-19 06:00:32 UTC]

Created attachment 273913 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 2 BT 2011-05-19 06:01:06 UTC]

Created attachment 273915 [details]
dev-libs/redland build log

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-05-19 16:04:30 UTC]

Did you run lafilefixer at any point?

[Comment 4 BT 2011-05-19 23:31:23 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
Not recently. Should I run it?

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-05-20 01:00:21 UTC]

It shouldn't matter since you run a recent portage 2.2, but there could be ancient left-overs, so YES, please run lafilefixer...

[Comment 6 BT 2011-05-20 01:14:49 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
Running lafilefixer didn't help.

[Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-07-09 08:43:34 UTC]

revdep-rebuild, emerge --resume --skipfirst, lafilefixer --justfixit, ...

redland doesn't use icu or have any reference to it itself, so this is caused by combination of .la file pollution, overlinking and wrong ordering of packages in revdep-rebuild (see bug 241198)