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gentoo help needed!!

mcveigh

mcveigh

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I've posted this problem at the gentoo forums but haven't gotten it fixed


I can't emerge evolution (somethig else broke it today) alsa, kde, gnome2, ghostscripte...etc, even vim!

different errors on each. what is my problem is it my kernel? note I have all of the above installed, I just can't update to the latest.

I'm getting really frustrated here and I can't find many docs.


/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lasound
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [vim] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/vim-6.1-r9/work/vim61/src'
make: *** [first] Error 2

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 61, Exitcode 2
!!! gvim make failed

!!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/app-editors/vim/vim-6.1-r9.ebuild .


that's what I get when trying emerge -u vim

I have tried everything I can think of, but most packages abort on some type of error🙁
 
Make sure your gentoo emerge thingies (programs/scripts/little elves that collect each bit/however it works) are up to date. Make sure your ld hints file is up to date (reboot should take care of it or look at ldconfig(?)).

Try uninstalling the old and then try a normal emerge on the new ones.
 
i'm not sure about the ld hints thing..what is it? 😱

tried ALL other thing though--ive'purged old sources uninstalled the originals everything I can think of:|
 
Originally posted by: mcveigh
i'm not sure about the ld hints thing..what is it? 😱

tried ALL other thing though--ive'purged old sources uninstalled the originals everything I can think of:|
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I believe the ld hints thing is a binary file full of library locations and stuff to help compilers.

/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lasound
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Thats what makes me think its an ld problem.
 
Looks like it can't find the alsa libraries (run ldconfig as root and try again), although I have no idea why vim would need linking against them.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Looks like it can't find the alsa libraries (run ldconfig as root and try again), although I have no idea why vim would need linking against them.
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I figured thats what it was, but it doesnt make sense to me as to why vim would need those libraries...
 
I was wondering the same thing, while I have gotten different errors on different ebuilds alsa seems to pop up alot😕
 
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