Bug 45480 – mc recompiling crashed with "cannot find libext2fs.so" after system-update

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description toni 2004-03-23 02:09:41 UTC]

I cant't emerge mc-4.6.0-r3 after "emerge -u world". I want to rebuild mc after an update, but it wasn't possible. I rebuild also e2fsprogs-1.34 (this works without problems) but that problem couldn't be fixed. 

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-03-23 09:09:23 UTC]

please post a log of the emerge process

[Comment 2 toni 2004-03-23 11:18:54 UTC]

<output>
gcc -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include   -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall   -o mc  achown.o background.o boxes.o chmod.o chown.o cmd.o color.o command.o complete.o cons.handler.o dialog.o dir.o dlg.o ext.o file.o filegui.o filenot.o fileopctx.o find.o findme.o fsusage.o help.o hotlist.o info.o key.o keyxdef.o layout.o learn.o listmode.o main.o menu.o mountlist.o mouse.o option.o panelize.o popt.o poptconfig.o popthelp.o poptparse.o profile.o regex.o rxvt.o screen.o setup.o slint.o subshell.o terms.o text.o textconf.o tree.o treestore.o user.o util.o utilunix.o view.o widget.o win.o wtools.o charsets.o selcodepage.o ../edit/libedit.a  ../vfs/libvfs-mc.a ../intl/libintl.a  -lglib-2.0   -L/usr/X11R6/lib  -lSM -lICE -lX11  -lgpm -lslang -lext2fs -lcom_err -lsmbclient
gcc -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include   -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall   -o mcmfmt  mfmt.o
gcc -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include   -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall   -o man2hlp  man2hlp.o -lglib-2.0
gcc -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include   -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall   -o cons.saver  cons.saver.o
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot open linker script file /lib/libext2fs.so: Too many open files
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [mc] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mc-4.6.0-r3/work/mc-4.6.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mc-4.6.0-r3/work/mc-4.6.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2
 
!!! ERROR: app-misc/mc-4.6.0-r3 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 81, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)
</output>

At first there was an error like: "cannot find /lib/libext2fs.so".
The file was in /usr/lib/, so i made a Symlink from /usr/lib/libext2fs.so to /lib/libext2fs.so but it doesn't work.

[Comment 3 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-03-24 10:40:06 UTC]

try the solution proposed in bug #36757

[Comment 4 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-04-05 07:29:19 UTC]

did it work?