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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-11-10 04:10:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-11-10 04:10:06 +0000 |
| commit | bb9d3b0b53bded18941f12b6e2445d680fb431bb (patch) | |
| tree | d9180836eba4cafd930c92dd4b1572cdcc25538d | |
| parent | f1af68e406bba956edb40440f65c5fc8057d6cab (diff) | |
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In the LinkageMap.findConsumers() docstring, add a note about incompatibility
with symlinks created by binutils-config.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=11843
| -rw-r--r-- | pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py index 152e9d2cc..1d5c8fe26 100644 --- a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py +++ b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py @@ -624,7 +624,12 @@ class LinkageMap(object): In some cases, not all consumers are returned. This may occur when an soname symlink referencing a library is in an object's runpath while - the actual library is not. + the actual library is not. For example, this problem is noticeable for + binutils since it's libraries are added to the path via symlinks that + are gemerated in the /usr/$CHOST/lib/ directory by binutils-config. + Failure to recognize consumers of these symlinks makes preserve-libs + fail to preserve binutils libs that are needed by these unrecognized + consumers. @param obj: absolute path to an object or a key from _obj_properties @type obj: string (example: '/usr/bin/bar') or _ObjectKey |