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[Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:53:04 +0900
flux <flux AT sourcemage.org> wrote:
> Sukneet Basuta (sukneet AT gmail.com) wrote [12.01.12 03:33]:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Ismael Luceno
> > <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Several packages on my system are broken due to XCB having changed
> > > its libraries (ABI and API incompatibility).
> > >
> > > For example: xfce4-session and claws-mail depend on
> > > libxcb-aux.so.0.
> > >
> > > Building some packages, like libxfce4ui, fails now due to the
> > > missing libxcb-aux.la.
> > >
> > > I had to manually provide following libraries to put my system on
> > > a sane state again:
> > > * libxcb-aux.so.0
> > > * libxcb-event.so.1
> > > * libxcb-atom.so.1
> > >
> > > All required symbols were provided now by libxcb-util.so.0, so I
> > > just symlinked them, I'm not sure if it's a 1:1 equivalence, but
> > > it works.
> > 
> > I do not have those 3 libs on my system and was able to successfully
> > cast libxfce4ui and xfce4-session.
> > 
> > I'm guessing one of the dependencies of those spells is still linked
> > to those libs on your system.
> > 
> > I'd remove the links you manually made and run "cleanse --fix". That
> > should find the spell(s) that needs to be recast.
> 
> This sounds suspiciously like the .la file(s) is responsible for the
> problem. If the .la file mentions libraries that aren't actually
> required, and are missing, then builds will fail if they use such .la
> files even if they don't actually depend on the missing libraries. You
> can grep your other .la files to see if they point to said
> libxcb-aux.la, and probably you'll get several hits.
> 

Thanks for the hint. I'll look at it later. If that's the case, I
wonder how that file didn't got reaped when updating the package...

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