Created attachment 439948 [details] build log kde-apps/libkexiv2-15.12.3 fails to build with 'undefined reference' errors. tried even with 'emerge -e libkexiv2' - still no dice.
Created attachment 439950 [details] emerge --info '=kde-apps/libkexiv2-15.12.3::gentoo'
emerge -pqv '=kde-apps/libkexiv2-15.12.3::gentoo': [ebuild N ] kde-apps/libkexiv2-15.12.3 USE="xmp -debug"
Could you please try rebuilding media-gfx/exiv2 explicitly?
(In reply to Michael Palimaka (kensington) from comment #3) > Could you please try rebuilding media-gfx/exiv2 explicitly? already done that, didn't help.
> -- Found Exiv2: /usr/local/lib/libexiv2.so (found suitable version "0.25.0", minimum required is "0.24") Ah, this is probably the cause.
(In reply to Michael Palimaka (kensington) from comment #5) > > -- Found Exiv2: /usr/local/lib/libexiv2.so (found suitable version "0.25.0", minimum required is "0.24") > > Ah, this is probably the cause. sorry, what's the cause?
For whatever reason you have a libexiv2.so in /usr/local/lib which is probably broken.
that was the cause indeed. i completely missed the local/ part. sorry. how it got there all the way back in 2009 is still a mystery... thank you!