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   pk to Peter Weilbacher   
   Re: revdep-rebuild doesn't always work?   
   27 Mar 08 12:19:43   
   
   From: pk@pk.invalid   
      
   Peter Weilbacher wrote:   
      
   > I have noticed this before with other packages. Sometimes, after updating   
   > some library, I notice that revdep-rebuild says everything is OK, but I   
   > still see missing libraries. The current example is that I updated pdflib   
   > (to 7.0.2_p8) because of the recent security issues. revdep-rebuild is   
   > happy but I cannot start gnuplot (version 4.2.2), because it is missing   
   > its pdf library: "ldd /usr/bin/gnuplot" says "libpdf.so.2 => not found".   
   > It at least starts (didn't try to actually write to a PDF terminal) if I   
   > manually link /usr/lib/libpdf.so.6.0.2 to /usr/lib/libpdf.so.2.   
   >   
   > Am I wrong in thinking revdep-rebuild should discover this itself and   
   > offer to re-emerge gnuplot?   
      
   It should. However, try running revdep-rebuild telling it the library to   
   search for:   
      
   # revdep-rebuild --library=libpdf.so.2   
      
   If that doesn't work either, you can probably file a bug on   
   http://bugs.gentoo.org.   
      
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