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Bug 319101 (lpng15) - generic "ld: cannot find -lpng15" bug for broken libtool files (.la)
Summary: generic "ld: cannot find -lpng15" bug for broken libtool files (.la)
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: lpng15
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High trivial with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
URL: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/vie...
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Reported: 2010-05-10 01:17 UTC by gent_bz
Modified: 2014-05-13 19:41 UTC (History)
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Description gent_bz 2010-05-10 01:17:19 UTC
Since upgrade to libpng-1.4.2, gnumeric build fails with

  CCLD   libspreadsheet.la
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng12

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-10 10:34:40 UTC
For gnome problems and libpng, try bulding glade, cairo, pango, and gtk+ first. 

Then you can do something like hacky like:

find /usr/lib64 -name '*.la' |xargs grep lpng

If you see -lpng12 lines there, those are broken .la files. For example, remove them or change with -lpng14. Or re-emerge the problematic package it belongs to, yes... we need a tool for this :/

You get to blame sys-devel/libtool for sucking :) 
Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-10 11:52:31 UTC
*** Bug 319099 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-10 12:52:23 UTC
*** Bug 319029 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-10 12:53:21 UTC
Reopen for easier finding, I'm sure it helps bug-wranglers... 
Comment 5 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-10 17:37:20 UTC
*** Bug 319179 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-10 17:50:07 UTC
AT YOUR OWN RISK:

# find /usr/lib -name '*.la' | xargs sed -i -e '/^dep/s:-lpng12:-lpng14:'
# emerge -1 cairo pango libglade gtk+

or lib64
Comment 7 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2010-05-10 19:04:40 UTC
*** Bug 319103 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2010-05-10 19:07:22 UTC
*** Bug 319089 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Robert Cabrera 2010-05-10 19:55:49 UTC
As was mentioned in the https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319101 thread the solution isn't difficult, but is very time consuming.

Before updating from to libpng-1.2 to libpng-1.4 make sure that you have fetched any other files that need to be updated by running "emerge -euNDf world". 

You're going to need these files in advance because as mentioned updating is going to temporarily break many applications linked to it, especially if you're a Gnome desktop user.

Now it's ok to 'emerge --oneshot libpng'.

Then run 'lafilefixer --justfixit'.

Now you're ready for the "big rebuild". I use KDE even so I had to rebuild 70 apps. Those of you running Gnome, if you're no longer able to use or get to a terminal in X then just 'Ctrl-Alt-F1' to drop to a shell.

Then run 'revdep-rebuild'. When finished your system should be sane again.

Beware, that you may have to rebuild over 100 apps including Open Office if it was built with Gnome support.

After this is all done 'Ctrl-Alt-F7' will get you back into your desktop environment.

I hope this helps.

Ciao
Comment 10 Willard Dawson 2010-05-10 20:07:01 UTC
Maybe lafilefixer needs a tweak, too.  I could swear I ran it before running revdep-rebuild, but things broke until I followed Comment #6 prior to rerunning revdep-rebuild.  Not done rebuilding the 100+ packages, but for now:

Works for me.
Comment 11 infobox.oleg 2010-05-10 20:08:34 UTC
I've just solved the issue and I didn't have to rebuild everything.
On my machine libpng-1.4 was automatically installed to the separate slot.
libpng-1.2 stayed in libpng:1.2 slot.

At first I ran revdep-rebuild and it displayed like 70 packages, I've
rebuilt a couple of them and then it crashed when looking for libpng12.la.

So I ran lafilefixer --justfixit and then revdep-rebuild should zero packages
to rebuild.
Obviously some of my packages must be linked against libpng12.la, but I don't
mind until it works :-)
I didn't do a thing from comment 6.

Oleg
Comment 12 Neil Bothwick 2010-05-11 10:12:57 UTC
I thought sedding about with the .la files may be a little risky, so I used this to rebuild all affected packages.

emerge --oneshot --jobs 1 --keep-going $(qfile -qC $(find /usr/lib64 -name '*.la' | xargs grep -- -lpng12 | awk -F: '{print $1}'))

You may need to run it more than once before it completes without errors.
Comment 13 Kevin Vance 2010-05-12 18:42:24 UTC
I can confirm on my system that s/png12/png14/ in /usr/lib/*.la allowed the rest of the packages to compile after one pass of 'lafilefixer --justfixit' and 'revdep-rebuild -- --keep-going'.

I did it by hand though, as I'm too cowardly to run sed in /usr/lib!
Comment 14 Ildar Sagdejev 2010-05-12 21:21:21 UTC
The ebuild info now mentions a script you can run if lafilefixer and revdep-rebuild fail, which executes the above sed funkiness for you:

/usr/sbin/libpng-1.4.x-update.sh

In my case, I had to.

As to Comment #9, I generally avoid all this terminal switching by just emerging everything from GNU Screen or tmux.  For those who haven't tried it, I highly suggest it.  At the end, if you need to, just restart X and reconnect to your Screen session, with a finished emerge.

This libpng upgrade really put a dent in my day =/  Thanks for all the great info guys!
Comment 15 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-14 11:08:37 UTC
Finally closing. Fixed by running the shipped /usr/sbin/libpng-1.4.x-update.sh script.
Comment 16 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-14 20:14:17 UTC
*** Bug 319755 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-15 20:16:20 UTC
*** Bug 319879 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 18 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-16 17:11:47 UTC
*** Bug 320011 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 19 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-16 18:39:44 UTC
*** Bug 320025 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 20 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-16 20:54:40 UTC
*** Bug 320027 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 21 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-18 08:19:28 UTC
*** Bug 320319 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 22 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-18 08:21:27 UTC
*** Bug 320229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 23 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-18 08:22:28 UTC
*** Bug 320069 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 24 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-18 13:56:15 UTC
*** Bug 320403 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 25 Robert T Childers 2010-05-19 01:42:36 UTC
Note installing libpng:1.2 and libpng:0, then revdep-rebuild (or reconcilio for paludis) --library libpng12.so.0, then uninstall libpng:1.2 will also work.
Comment 26 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-22 18:53:27 UTC
*** Bug 321081 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 27 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-22 21:23:35 UTC
*** Bug 321113 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 28 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-23 12:29:25 UTC
*** Bug 321167 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 29 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2010-06-30 08:33:25 UTC
*** Bug 326235 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 30 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2010-06-30 08:39:37 UTC
*** Bug 319123 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 31 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-06-30 18:17:30 UTC
*** Bug 326349 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 32 Oleg 2010-08-29 19:55:37 UTC
Got this bug when update. Made:

# find /usr/lib64 -name "*.la" | xargs sed -i -e "/^dep/s:-lpng12:-lpng14:"
# emerge -1 cairo pango libglade gtk+

but on compilation media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0 got:

  CCLD   libgvplugin_gd_C.la
  CCLD   libgvplugin_gd.la
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng12
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
distcc[20342] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed
make[3]: *** [libgvplugin_gd.la] Ошибка 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0/work/graphviz-2.26.0/plugin/gd'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Ошибка 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0/work/graphviz-2.26.0/plugin'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Ошибка 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0/work/graphviz-2.26.0'
make: *** [all] Ошибка 2

All *.la files in /usr/lib64/ have dependence only from -lpng14 and I cann't understand where libtool found old dependence.
Comment 33 J.Borme 2010-10-23 14:50:13 UTC
I upgraded to libpng14 months ago and it went well. Today gnuplot failed to compile and I ended up reading this bug report. 

15:51:26 root jerome/ equery list libpng
[ Searching for package 'libpng' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] media-libs/libpng-1.2.44 (1.2)
[I--] [  ] media-libs/libpng-1.4.3 (0)

I did:

revdep-rebuild

/usr/sbin/libpng-1.4.x-update.sh

lafilefixer --justfixit

# find /usr/lib64 -name '*.la' | xargs sed -i -e '/^dep/s:-lpng12:-lpng14:'
# emerge -1 cairo pango libglade gtk+

(Maybe in a different order, and possibly several times each item). Anyway, 

emerge =sci-visualization/gnuplot-4.4.2
[...]
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++  -O2 -pipe  -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -L/usr/lib64 -Wl,-O1 -L/usr/lib64 -o gnuplot alloc.o axis.o binary.o breaders.o bitmap.o color.o command.o contour.o datafile.o dynarray.o eval.o fit.o gadgets.o getcolor.o graph3d.o graphics.o help.o hidden3d.o history.o internal.o interpol.o matrix.o misc.o mouse.o parse.o plot.o plot2d.o plot3d.o pm3d.o readline.o save.o scanner.o set.o show.o specfun.o standard.o stdfn.o tables.o tabulate.o term.o time.o unset.o util.o util3d.o variable.o version.o  gp_cairo.o gp_cairo_helpers.o -lreadline  -lncurses  -lz -lgd -lXpm -lX11 -ljpeg -lfreetype -lpng12 -lz -lm -ljpeg -lpdf   -lreadline -lreadline -lreadline -lreadline -lm  -pthread -lz -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0  
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng12
Comment 34 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-10-23 15:05:39 UTC
(In reply to comment #33)
> I upgraded to libpng14 months ago and it went well. Today gnuplot failed to
> compile and I ended up reading this bug report. 
> 
> 15:51:26 root jerome/ equery list libpng
> [ Searching for package 'libpng' in all categories among: ]
>  * installed packages
> [I--] [  ] media-libs/libpng-1.2.44 (1.2)
> [I--] [  ] media-libs/libpng-1.4.3 (0)

Try
emerge -C =libpng-1.2.44 && emerge gnuplot
Comment 35 J.Borme 2010-10-23 15:45:10 UTC
Thank you, it worked. (Side-effect: recompiling 40 packages.)

(In reply to comment #34)
> Try
> emerge -C =libpng-1.2.44 && emerge gnuplot
> 

Comment 36 Erik Benada 2010-10-29 15:36:01 UTC
(In reply to comment #32)
> Got this bug when update. Made:
> 
> # find /usr/lib64 -name "*.la" | xargs sed -i -e "/^dep/s:-lpng12:-lpng14:"
> # emerge -1 cairo pango libglade gtk+
> 
> but on compilation media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0 got:
> 
>   CCLD   libgvplugin_gd_C.la
>   CCLD   libgvplugin_gd.la
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
> cannot find -lpng12
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> distcc[20342] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed
> make[3]: *** [libgvplugin_gd.la] Ошибка 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0/work/graphviz-2.26.0/plugin/gd'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Ошибка 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0/work/graphviz-2.26.0/plugin'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Ошибка 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0/work/graphviz-2.26.0'
> make: *** [all] Ошибка 2
> 
> All *.la files in /usr/lib64/ have dependence only from -lpng14 and I cann't
> understand where libtool found old dependence.
> 

I had to emerge media-libs/gd to get rid of the error.
Run 'gdlib-config --libs' to see if it contains '-lpng12'. Mine did.
Comment 37 Robert Tongue 2010-10-29 18:00:04 UTC
(In reply to comment #36)
> (In reply to comment #32)
> > Got this bug when update. Made:
> > 
> > # find /usr/lib64 -name "*.la" | xargs sed -i -e "/^dep/s:-lpng12:-lpng14:"
> > # emerge -1 cairo pango libglade gtk+
> > 
> > but on compilation media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0 got:
> > 
> >   CCLD   libgvplugin_gd_C.la
> >   CCLD   libgvplugin_gd.la
> > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
> > cannot find -lpng12
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > distcc[20342] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed
> > make[3]: *** [libgvplugin_gd.la] Ошибка 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory
> > `/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0/work/graphviz-2.26.0/plugin/gd'
> > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Ошибка 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > `/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0/work/graphviz-2.26.0/plugin'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Ошибка 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0/work/graphviz-2.26.0'
> > make: *** [all] Ошибка 2
> > 
> > All *.la files in /usr/lib64/ have dependence only from -lpng14 and I cann't
> > understand where libtool found old dependence.
> > 
> 
> I had to emerge media-libs/gd to get rid of the error.
> Run 'gdlib-config --libs' to see if it contains '-lpng12'. Mine did.
> 
I just got the same thing. Ran 'gdlib-config --libs' and found lpng12 also. After rebuild, it was no longer there.
(In reply to comment #36)
> (In reply to comment #32)
> > Got this bug when update. Made:
> > 
> > # find /usr/lib64 -name "*.la" | xargs sed -i -e "/^dep/s:-lpng12:-lpng14:"
> > # emerge -1 cairo pango libglade gtk+
> > 
> > but on compilation media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0 got:
> > 
> >   CCLD   libgvplugin_gd_C.la
> >   CCLD   libgvplugin_gd.la
> > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
> > cannot find -lpng12
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > distcc[20342] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed
> > make[3]: *** [libgvplugin_gd.la] Ошибка 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory
> > `/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0/work/graphviz-2.26.0/plugin/gd'
> > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Ошибка 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > `/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0/work/graphviz-2.26.0/plugin'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Ошибка 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.0/work/graphviz-2.26.0'
> > make: *** [all] Ошибка 2
> > 
> > All *.la files in /usr/lib64/ have dependence only from -lpng14 and I cann't
> > understand where libtool found old dependence.
> > 
> 
> I had to emerge media-libs/gd to get rid of the error.
> Run 'gdlib-config --libs' to see if it contains '-lpng12'. Mine did.
> 

I had same problem and checked gd. It was still pointing to lpng12 even though it was not installed on the system. I rebuilt it and ran revdep-rebuild and it all worked sanely. Is this something that should be addressed by the devs? When I ran revdep-rebuild before the gd rebuild, it did not catch the problem. Just seems it may be a problem with gd after the upgrade of lping.
Comment 38 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-12-27 22:16:15 UTC
*** Bug 349902 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 39 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-18 05:19:26 UTC
*** Bug 383433 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 40 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-18 06:41:29 UTC
*** Bug 383449 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 41 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-18 08:12:17 UTC
To anyone stumbling over here because of "missing -lpng14". Run this command to identify broken files:

# find /usr/ -name '*.la' -exec grep png14 {} +

Re-emerge the packages the files belong to, or edit them by hand and replace "-lpng14" with "-lpng".

These packages that install such .la files shouldn't propably install them at all, so you might even want to open a bug against them... for installing useless .la files, if you know howto identify them.
Comment 42 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-19 11:15:01 UTC
*** Bug 383619 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 43 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-19 15:46:21 UTC
*** Bug 383653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 44 Juergen Rose 2011-09-19 16:28:59 UTC
Hi Samuli,
to comment 41, is it not the duty of lafilfilefixer to do this job?

Regards Juergen
Comment 45 Juergen Rose 2011-09-19 16:30:24 UTC
Sorry for the typos. I meant lafilefixer.
Comment 46 Martin von Gagern 2011-09-19 17:43:05 UTC
(In reply to comment #44)
> to comment 41, is it not the duty of [lafilefixer] to do this job?

As fas as I understand things, lafilefixer will only translate references to libfoo.so and libfoo.la files back to -lfoo linker arguments. As libpng has libpng14.so instead of libpng.so.1.4, the corresponding flag is still -lpng14, therefore will still include the version number. That's a special case, other libraries usually don't do this. So I wouldn't consider dealing with this the task of lafilefixer.

(In reply to comment #41)
> # find /usr/ -name '*.la' -exec grep png14 {} +

Offering my own alternative, to actually remerge the affected packages:

emerge -a1 --keep-going $(find /usr/lib* /lib* -name '*.la' -print0 \
 | xargs -0 grep -l png14 | while read f; do qfile -C -v "$f" \
 | awk '{print $1}'; done | sort -u | sed 's:^:=:')
Comment 47 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-20 09:12:31 UTC
*** Bug 383781 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 48 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-21 16:19:23 UTC
*** Bug 383905 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 49 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-21 16:22:35 UTC
*** Bug 383905 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 50 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-22 12:56:35 UTC
*** Bug 383909 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 51 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2011-09-22 13:20:33 UTC
*** Bug 384081 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 52 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2011-09-22 15:57:52 UTC
*** Bug 384101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 53 Denis Sokolovsky 2011-09-23 11:43:35 UTC
I update libpng from 1.4 to 1.5 and gnome-settings-daemon is an only package build against libpng which failed to reemerge. So two questions:
1. Does this bug really fixed?
2. If all okay with libpng (all packages except one reemerged successfully) why bug 384101 is marked as duplicate of this bug?
Comment 54 Martin von Gagern 2011-09-23 12:36:48 UTC
(In reply to comment #53)
> 2. If all okay with libpng (all packages except one reemerged successfully) why
> bug 384101 is marked as duplicate of this bug?

As comment #41 points out, that single package probably won't re-emerge because some OTHER package still has a bad libpng reference in one of its *.la files. So find that file, and re-emerge that package before repeating the failing emerge. If you feel like it, file a bug report asking for that package to not install the *.la file in the first place.

I have to agree, though, that this kind of manual intervention isn't exactly a solved issue by my book either. But there is little that libpng can do about it (at least no automatic solution has been suggested here, has there?), as this would have to be dealt with by package managers. See e.g. bug #287318 requesting that portage deal with *.la files.

(In reply to comment #15)
> Finally closing. Fixed by running the shipped /usr/sbin/libpng-1.4.x-update.sh
> script.

Should we have a matching libpng-1.5.x-update.sh as well? Can't find the source for the 1.4.x one either, so I'm not sure what exactly it did. But something along the lines of comment 46, probably with fewer external deps (on app-portage/portage-utils for qfile in particular) might be useful.
Comment 55 Timothy Miller 2011-09-23 14:29:00 UTC
I'm on Gentoo Prefix, and I have no /usr/sbin/libpng-1.4.x-update.sh.  Or anything remotely like it.
Comment 56 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-24 05:53:38 UTC
*** Bug 384269 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 57 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-24 06:02:53 UTC
We are using this bug to collect another bugs with insufficient data which are clearly caused by broken libtool files (.la)

And by insufficient data I mean bugs that don't mention the specific .la file that has the -lpng14 reference, so that such bug could be assigned to the maintainer owning the package the .la file belongs to. 

One .la file, one package, one bug.  
A massive list in one bug won't help as then we can't assign it properly.

Such package propably needs it's .la files removed, USE=static-libs added, and other general cleanup. 
And as we don't expect every single user to know howto identify these properly, and we don't have time to explain it to everyone comprehensibly, you are forwarded here for workaround instead.

If you are REALLY intrested in helping minimizing this impact, I suggest you start with reading Flameeyes blog:

http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

Find out every Article it has on libtool, .la files, and so forth. Read them good. Once you understand the issue entirely, you can start filing bugs about "category/package installs unnecessary .la files, causing problems for libpng upgrade"
And if you don't do this properly, maintainers will just get very annoyed.

I hope that clears up why you have ended up here, instead of something else. It by no means, are meant as an deliberate ignore on anyone.
Comment 58 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-24 06:09:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #55)
> I'm on Gentoo Prefix, and I have no /usr/sbin/libpng-1.4.x-update.sh.  Or
> anything remotely like it.

Comment #41 and Comment #46 instead of that script.
Comment 59 Martin von Gagern 2011-09-24 10:48:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #57)
> If you are REALLY intrested in helping minimizing this impact, I suggest you
> start with reading Flameeyes blog.
> Find out every Article it has on libtool, .la files, and so forth.

http://blog.flameeyes.eu/tag/libtool and http://blog.flameeyes.eu/tag/lafiles

(In reply to comment #58)
> Comment #41 and Comment #46 instead of that script.

If there is to be no script, how do you plan to handle stabilization of libpng-1.5? While I agree that the root cause lies in the individual packages and their *.la files, I guess it is highly unlikely that all those individual packages will be fixed, the fixed versions stabilized, and users install those fixed packages, before libpng gets stabilized. And hoping for all stable users to find this bug on their own doesn't look too good.

So I suggest you should include some advice in the libpng pkg_postinst(), perhaps based on EAPI=4 ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} being <1.5 to avoid issuing the same message over again and again. At the very least, the message should point users at this bug here. Even better, it should print instructions on how to fix things, and as comment #41 requires manual work to process its output, and comment #46 is rather a lengthy command, having a script instead might be better.
Comment 60 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-24 11:24:30 UTC
*** Bug 384139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 61 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-24 11:32:47 UTC
(In reply to comment #59)
> If there is to be no script, how do you plan to handle stabilization of
> libpng-1.5?

Portage news item[1] when 1.5 goes stable, not before, as ~arch users should know their way around this without any help.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0042.html
Comment 62 Timothy Miller 2011-09-25 04:13:22 UTC
> as ~arch users should know their way around this without any help.

Since when has Prefix had a stable branch?
Comment 63 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-25 07:06:14 UTC
*** Bug 384403 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 64 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-25 16:08:52 UTC
*** Bug 384437 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 65 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-26 05:32:36 UTC
*** Bug 384503 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 66 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-27 09:06:05 UTC
*** Bug 384633 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 67 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-28 18:36:25 UTC
*** Bug 384829 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 68 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2011-09-29 12:39:10 UTC
Adding alias for faster marking of duplicates
Comment 69 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2011-09-29 12:39:50 UTC
*** Bug 384931 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 70 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-30 12:37:32 UTC
*** Bug 384989 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 71 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-01 16:49:26 UTC
*** Bug 385203 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 72 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2011-10-02 19:29:09 UTC
*** Bug 385419 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 73 Juergen Rose 2011-10-03 09:56:41 UTC
Hi Samuli,

is Bug 385203 really a duplicate of this bug? At least it does not depend on broken .la files. Thus 

emerge -a1 --keep-going $(find /usr/lib* /lib* -name '*.la' -print0 \
 | xargs -0 grep -l png14 | while read f; do qfile -C -v "$f" \
 | awk '{print $1}'; done | sort -u | sed 's:^:=:')

does not help, to solve the problem of Bug 385203, while 

emerge -a1 --keep-going $(find /usr/lib* /lib* -name '*.so' -exec bash -c "if [ -x {} ]; then if ldd {}  | grep png14 > /dev/null;  then qfile -vC {} |  cut -f1 -d' '; fi; fi;" \; | sort -u | sed 's:^:=:')

solved the issue of Bug 385203.
Comment 74 Hans Nieser 2011-10-06 05:08:03 UTC
I'm currently stuck with the libpng upgrade, gnome-media-2.32.0-r1 fails to rebuild (the usual, cannot find -lpng14), but it seems all the other packages picked up by the various one-liners given here depend on it and either also fail or get skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies. I've tried running lafilefixer --justfixit but that didn't seem to fix anything.

Does anyone know how to proceed?
Comment 75 Martin von Gagern 2011-10-06 06:37:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #74)
> Does anyone know how to proceed?

Find out what lafiles it is using that provides this broken link instruction. You might try something along these lines:

emerge -an dev-util/strace
strace -ff -e open -o /tmp/emerge.strace \
ebuild /usr/portage/gnome-extra/gnome-media/gnome-media-2.32.0-r1.ebuild \
clean install
grep -v ENOENT /tmp/emerge.strace.* | cut -d\" -f2 | sort -u | \
grep '^/.*\.la$' | xargs grep png

What this does:
1. While trying to build the package, use strace to log every use of the
   open system call to a file /tmp/emerge.strace.<PID>
2. In all those files, look for succeeding open calls referencing la files
   using absolute paths.
3. In all of these la files, find those mentioning png.

You should feed the found la file to "qfile -v" from app-portage/portage-utils to determine the package it belongs to. If emerging that package really doesn't work due to cyclic dependencies, you might try renaming the lafile, and if that makes things work, removing it afterwards. Don't forget to remove the strace output files as well when you're done.
Comment 76 Hans Nieser 2011-10-06 14:53:02 UTC
(In reply to comment #75)
> (In reply to comment #74)
> > Does anyone know how to proceed?
> 
> Find out what lafiles it is using that provides this broken link instruction.

Thanks! It turned out to be a .la file installed by dev-util/glade (libgladeui-1.la) that was causing gnome-media to fail
Comment 77 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-06 18:29:25 UTC
*** Bug 385891 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 78 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-06 18:43:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #76)
> (In reply to comment #75)
> > (In reply to comment #74)
> > > Does anyone know how to proceed?
> > 
> > Find out what lafiles it is using that provides this broken link instruction.
> 
> Thanks! It turned out to be a .la file installed by dev-util/glade
> (libgladeui-1.la) that was causing gnome-media to fail

I've removed the file now from the ebuild, it's useless, rm -f it.
Comment 79 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2011-10-10 18:40:09 UTC
*** Bug 386659 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 80 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-17 14:14:46 UTC
*** Bug 387405 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 81 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-18 08:48:33 UTC
*** Bug 387489 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 82 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-18 19:39:29 UTC
*** Bug 387591 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 83 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-19 19:46:21 UTC
*** Bug 387723 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 84 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-20 12:34:32 UTC
*** Bug 387857 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 85 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-20 12:36:00 UTC
*** Bug 387861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 86 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-22 20:33:20 UTC
*** Bug 388139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 87 Rafał Mużyło 2011-10-23 01:26:00 UTC
*** Bug 388167 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 88 quazgar 2011-10-23 17:02:58 UTC
For the record and for those who want to investigate this further:  This is the result of

find /usr/lib64 -name '*.la' |xargs grep lpng14 2> /dev/null | sed 's/\:.*//' | xargs equery -q b | sort | uniq

on my machine, while looking for possible libpng14 la-files:

dev-cpp/libgnomecanvasmm-2.26.0
gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.30.3
gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.24.5
media-libs/libexif-gtk-0.3.5-r2
net-print/gutenprint-5.2.6
x11-libs/gtkglext-1.2.0
x11-libs/gtksourceview-1.8.5-r1
x11-libs/gtksourceview-2.10.5-r1
x11-themes/gtk-engines-candido-0.9.1
x11-themes/gtk-engines-rezlooks-0.6
Comment 89 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-26 10:08:22 UTC
*** Bug 388513 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 90 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-26 15:42:14 UTC
(In reply to comment #88)
> media-libs/libexif-gtk-0.3.5-r2

Fixed this one.
Comment 91 Ben Short 2011-10-27 09:03:38 UTC
While doing a emerge --update --deep world

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng14
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [libkeyboard.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1-r2/work/gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1/plugins/keyboard'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1-r2/work/gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1/plugins'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1-r2/work/gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
 * ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1-r2 failed (compile phase):
 *   emake failed


I then tried emerge libpng which re installs libpng-1.5.5 ok but tells me that "Old versions of installed libraries were detected on your system" and I should run revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14'

When I do this it fails to emerge gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1 with the same problem.

What can I do to get this working?
Comment 92 Ben Short 2011-10-27 10:30:59 UTC
Executing the following in /usr/lib64 sorted it out for me.

find -name \*.la -exec sed -i -e 's/-lpng14/-lpng15/' '{}' \;
Comment 93 quazgar 2011-10-27 15:28:03 UTC
(In reply to comment #92)
> Executing the following in /usr/lib64 sorted it out for me.
> 
> find -name \*.la -exec sed -i -e 's/-lpng14/-lpng15/' '{}' \;

OK, a safer way would be to find the relevant packages with this command and then rebuild them:

find /usr/lib64 -name '*.la' |xargs grep lpng14 2> /dev/null | sed 's/\:.*//' | xargs equery -q b | sort | uniq
Comment 94 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-28 15:37:28 UTC
*** Bug 388789 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 95 Alex Buell 2011-10-28 15:48:01 UTC
I ran into this problem with emerge @preserved-rebuild, all of which failed to build. As follows:

net-print/gnome-cups-manager-0.33-r2
gnome-extra/gnome-media-2.32.0-r1
gnustep-base/gnustep-gui-0.18.0
sci-astronomy/celestia-1.6.1

I'm running 

find /usr/lib -name '*.la' |xargs grep lpng14 2> /dev/null | sed 's/\:.*//' | xargs equery -q b | sort | uniq

now... 

But that still leaves the matter of always getting the preserved rebuild message after updating with emerge. What to do?
Comment 96 Alex Buell 2011-10-28 16:34:22 UTC
That hack did not fix things for me vis. emerge @preserved-rebuild. Any ideas?
Comment 97 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-29 11:53:38 UTC
*** Bug 388841 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 98 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-11-09 20:00:52 UTC
*** Bug 390019 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 99 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-11-09 20:01:26 UTC
*** Bug 390023 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 100 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-11-09 20:02:20 UTC
*** Bug 390015 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 101 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-12-14 19:29:47 UTC
*** Bug 394723 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 102 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-12-16 18:07:32 UTC
*** Bug 394959 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 103 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-01-15 15:35:33 UTC
*** Bug 398997 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 104 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-02-15 04:44:30 UTC
*** Bug 403773 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 105 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-02-15 04:45:33 UTC
So here is the link (again) for people still ending up with this problem:

http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-news/2011/2011-10-15-libpng15/2011-10-15-libpng15.en.txt?revision=57&view=markup
Comment 106 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-03-01 17:54:28 UTC
*** Bug 406459 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 107 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-06-20 10:50:38 UTC
*** Bug 422531 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 108 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-08-25 05:31:07 UTC
*** Bug 432648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 109 Alessandro Surace 2012-10-09 10:22:22 UTC
None of the above solutions works for me!

I've to build mldonkey without gd support to complete tre process with success:
USE="-gd" emerge -v net-p2p/mldonkey

Installed versions:  3.1.0(12:10:19 PM 10/09/2012)(bittorrent fasttrack gnutella gtk magic ocamlopt -doc -gd -guionly)

Somebody can help to understand?

I've tried to rebuild media-libs/gd but mldonkey fails in the same place.

Thank
Alex
Comment 110 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2012-10-09 19:30:33 UTC
*** Bug 437650 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 111 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-01-05 11:53:56 UTC
*** Bug 450366 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 112 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-06-02 01:23:26 UTC
*** Bug 472050 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 113 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-06-20 19:21:14 UTC
*** Bug 473956 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 114 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-07-02 14:35:20 UTC
*** Bug 475220 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 115 Christoph Lange 2013-08-07 11:33:56 UTC
I am not aware of any .la files on my system; haven't they been replaced by some other mechanism around 2012?  Still I got "ld: cannot find -lpng15" when building app-office/dia-0.97.2-r1, with media-libs/libpng-1.5.16 installed.  (BTW, I had to install a =media-libs/libpng-1.5* manually; with just =media-libs/libpng-1.6* installed the dia ebuild wouldn't complain, but the build would fail – should I file this (broken dependency?) as a bug with the dia ebuild?)

In my case the following workaround helped:

# cd /usr/lib64
# ln -s libpng15.so.15 libpng15.so

This idea came to my mind as there was a symlink libpng16.so to libpng16.so.16.3.0, as provided by =media-libs/libpng-1.6.3-r1.
Comment 116 Christoph Lange 2013-08-07 11:43:32 UTC
(In reply to Christoph Lange from comment #115)
> In my case the following workaround helped:
> 
> # cd /usr/lib64
> # ln -s libpng15.so.15 libpng15.so

Sorry, reading https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473956#c1 made me realize that this is not the right way – indeed some obsolete .la files with outdated dependency_libs information were around.
Comment 117 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-11-18 08:51:20 UTC
*** Bug 491432 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 118 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-05-13 19:21:34 UTC
*** Bug 510252 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***