Just deleted /usr/lib/pkgconfig by accident.

Hunter2 · 06-25-2006, 06:53 PM

I'm retarded. I was trying to delete /lib/pkgconfig and replace it with a symlink since pkg-config is hardcoded to look for /usr/lib/pkgconfig, and accidentally deleted /usr/lib/pkgconfig instead.

I really don't want to reinstall Linux, 'cause it's taken me about 2 months now to get (almost) everything working, and I'm using ext3 so apparently I can't undelete.

Can someone with Slackware 10.2 PLEASE tar the contents of their /usr/lib/pkgconfig and post it here? (I can reinstall my custom libs, but I don't even know what I'm missing from the stock libs) Preferably a reasonably 'new' install (so there aren't a bunch of ghost libs for me), but anything will do at this point.

Thanks!

evilDagmar · 06-25-2006, 07:16 PM

You're not doomed. If you know a little shell scripting you can grep /var/log/packages for "^usr/lib/pkgconfig" and use that to feed a for loop a list of package names to reinstall with upgradepkg --reinstall, and that'll just reinstall the packages which had pkgconfig files that you nuked. If you don't know enough shell scripting, give it an hour or two and I (or someone else) will surely post the tiny bit of code you need to run. It'll be a little slowish, but it'll work and be less risky than anything else.

Hunter2 · 06-25-2006, 07:20 PM

Hmm, that's a great idea. I know a *bit* of shell scripting, so I'll try and poke around a bit first. Thanks!

Hunter2 · 06-25-2006, 08:15 PM

Ok, I got it. Thanks! (now I just have to install the rest of the libraries again...)

Code:

for i in /var/log/packages/*
do
if grep usr/lib/pkgconfig $i
then
cp $i /home/kevin/update
fi
done

for i in /home/kevin/update
do
cp `find /mnt/cdrom/slackware/*/\`basename $i\`.tgz` /home/kevin/explode
done

for i in /home/kevin/explode
do
explodepkg $i
done

mv /home/kevin/explode/usr/lib/pkgconfig/* /usr/lib/pkgconfig