Major issues with portage / libs

[kmacphail]

I've been having some issues since an update came in for libpng1.4 I was working my way through these but I noticed that another poster had similar issues with it on this thread http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-81 ... ight-.html

I tried charlies suggestion and typed the command:

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cd /usr/lib && find . -iname \*.la -exec sed -i "s@libGL.la@@g" {} ';'

however now my problems are worse; I can't seem to emerge anything without getting the error:

libtool: link: cannot find the library `' or unhandled argument `/usr/lib64/'

I tried using lafilefixer --justfixit, but this returns:

/usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.la already clean, skipping update.
/usr/lib64/libgstcdda-0.10.la already clean, skipping update.
/usr/lib64/libnotify.la already clean, skipping update.
/usr/lib64/libmcrypt.la already clean, skipping update.
/usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.la already clean, skipping update.
/usr/lib64/libavahi-common.la already clean, skipping update.
/usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.la already clean, skipping update.
/usr/lib64/libgstvideo-0.10.la already clean, skipping update.
/usr/lib64/libxcb-event.la already clean, skipping update.
/usr/lib64/libFS.la already clean, skipping update.
/usr/lib64/libwnck-1.la already clean, skipping update.
/usr/lib64/libgudev-1.0.la already clean, skipping update.
/usr/lib64/libevent_core.la already clean, skipping update.
/usr/lib64/libxcb-xinerama.la already clean, skipping update.
Debug information:
/usr/lib64/libcairomm-1.0.la
/usr/lib64/
Holy Moley, Dorothy, we ain't in Kansas and Luke, I'm not your father

I have been suggested on another forum that this can be rectified with the command

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sed -i.bak

however I do not have any knowledge of the sed command other than it's basic function.

I am aware that I should not have put in a command I knew nothing about, Homer Simpson moment, d'oh!!!!

A plea for help from a Gentoo noob, I thought I'd better start a new topic rather than piggy backing onto somebody else's problems, sorry for repetition of posts.

[Hu]

The simplest approach would be to rebuild, in proper order, every package which contains a file that you mangled with that first sed command. It may be simpler to unmerge every damaged package, then allow Portage to reinstall packages that it still needs. If you do this, watch out that you do not unmerge any critical packages.