On Friday 02 June 2006 00:12, Sven Köhler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it seems, i have some *.la files on my system, that don't belong to any
> ebuild anymore. I noticed that, because the new revdep-rebuild
> (gentoolkit 0.2.2) also check *.la files, and some were broken (pointing
> to a libstdc++.la of gcc 4.1.1 - but gcc 4.1.1 has none).
>
> So the history is:
> - gcc 3.4.5 was installed
> - emerged gcc 4.1.1
> (so 3.4.5 _and_ 4.1.1 were installed)
> - updated gcc 3.4.5 to 3.4.6
> (4.1.1 remained installed)
>
> so after gcc 3.4.5 was unmerged, there was this procedure that updates
> all the *.la files which point to the (now uninstalled) libstdc++ of gcc
> 3.4.5.
>
> Could it be, that this procedure modifies the timestamps of the *.la
> files? And is this the reason, that the *.la files don't get unmerged?

That's correct:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71265

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