libgcj.la causing problems

gentuse · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject: libgcj.la causing problems

revdep-rebuild thinks gcc needs to be re-emerged, even after being emerged.

"broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/lib-org-xml-sax.la (requires /usr/lib/libgcj.la)"
"broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/lib-org-w3c-dom.la (requires /usr/lib/libgcj.la)"

Dan · Veteran Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 1302

I think those 2 .la 's are orphans and can be removed ..

gentuse · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject:

equery thinks they belong to the gcc package. They have the same timestamp as the rest of the files in /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/

igds · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 39

I am experiencing the same problem with gcc-4.1.1-r3. I needed GCJ in order to compile and run pdftk as described here: Split GCC Ebuilds

Now I am recompiling GCC without the gcj flag and will install eclipse-ecj, instead, as suggested by baigsabeeh here: [SOLVED] USE flag 'gcj' and C compiler (gcc); hopefully, I will still be able to reinstall and run pdftk afterwards, but as I only ever needed to use it once (so far) it probably does not matter either way. Here are another couple of threads discussing this issue:

revdep-rebuild loop
revdep-rebuild wants to re-emerge gcc-4.1.1 everytime.

desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

In addition to the topics linked to by igds, this has been discussed in topic: "Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: gcc and libgcj.la".

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Duplicate Threads.