Apparently, though unproven, at 23:06 on Wednesday 18 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly:
> Had a depclean session which removed: > > media-libs/musicbrainz > selected: 2.1.5 > protected: none > omitted: 3.0.2 > > Then I followed up with revdep-rebuild and this comes up: > > * Generated new 1_files.rr > * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH > * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr > * Checking dynamic linking consistency > [ 67% ] * broken /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la (requires -lmusicbrainz) > [snip ...] > > * Assigning files to packages > * !!! /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la not owned by any package is broken !!! > * /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la -> (none) > > > What is "-lmusicbrainz" and is it telling me to just delete > /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la? Look into any *.la file and you will see stuff like this: /usr/lib/libsqlite3.la:dependency_libs=' -ldl -lpthread' The .la files are hints to the linker telling it how to do stuff, the -l bits reference libraries that will be needed. Far more often than is acceptable, libtool cocks this up in spectacular ways, which is why we had lafilefixer --justfixit for so long, and why it is now built into portage. I have musicbrainz, but I do not have /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la and yours is orphaned anyway - it probably got left behind long ago when depclean didn't know it was related to musicbrainz. Just delete the thing, be done with it, revdep-rebuild will stfu and you will be a much happier chappy -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
