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After a recent emerge -DuN world, messages for one of the packages =
stated
that it was necessary to run revdep-rebuild after emerging the package, =
so I
did. The revdep-rebuild ended up merging six packages, with one of them
being gcc. Emerging all six packages took several hours, and I noticed =
that
gcc by itself took a significant amount of time.

The final message stated that I could re-run revdep-rebuild to verify =
that
all inconsistencies had been resolved, unfortunately, I did not add a -p =
to
the command and to my surprise it spent the next couple of hours or so
emerging gcc again.

After that finished, I again ran revdep-rebuild although this time with =
a -p
and below is the output:=20
______________________________________

Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild

Checking reverse dependencies...

Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update
will be emerged.

Collecting system binaries and libraries... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)

Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath)

Checking dynamic linking consistency...
broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcjawt.la (requires
/usr/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.la)
broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgij.la (requires
/usr/lib/libgcj.la)
done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)

Assigning files to ebuilds... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds)

Evaluating package order... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order)

All prepared. Starting rebuild...
emerge --oneshot -p =3Dsys-devel/gcc-4.1.2

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2
Now you can remove -p (or --pretend) from arguments and re-run
revdep-rebuild.
______________________________________

It wants to build gcc again. I don't want to have to build gcc every =
time I
need to use revdep-rebuild. The final message from revdep-rebuild is:=20

____________________
Build finished correctly. Removing temporary files...
You can re-run revdep-rebuild to verify that all libraries and binaries
are fixed. If some inconsistency remains, it can be orphaned file, deep
dependency, binary package or specially evaluated library. =20
____________________

How do I determine if this is a case of "orphaned file, deep dependency,
binary package or specially evaluated library" and, if it is one of =
those,
how do I determine which one, and then how do I fix this...?

Thanks for listening,
Bob Young
San Jose, CA

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