On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 18 May 2011 22:28:38 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> 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 > > Thanks guys, it's been blitzed!
I think the long-term plan is to eliminate the *.la files entirely, once all packages have been updated as such by their maintainers, so hopefully this kind of problem will vanish in the not-too-distant future. :)
