From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q42xZ-0006Ci-W7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:17:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D47171C065; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:16:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3AD1C065 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:16:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh4 with SMTP id 4so1060965gyh.40 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:16:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZkOA0FhQyGASLbTKdTJqHbSAEEYc7esZG3fY2wjME+A=; b=xol8x4DfR+e4Te8+V0L4TRGcDHcIbvrmWRxnNas3x/FJF5sU485A0rQEcFldkvXBBD kKKOW9hKo+gasECwS5HOh4Y89v7sb92b8wOQDyWk5F7GUT51myf2xHgnBDMvpQ5JS3ZN NudjiRVti7MTT/8qf+XZHWLySTYkNxbx9yiQ8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qIyimgDFmRM6GqzXhuAA0ow1OsMObdiE2JXeoH/C5S5HpZK6iGY5eYbsR7OFA9o9jX xnu5VnsP0M98tYWVNbz2wAv+no1nV+uMpD3gTcWgXW2p9T1yGqAXgJBhxORtjgQ9Y6vN h1LGnfylim5C4tvOApcpHsh3RGFzWZAKdj5Mo= Received: by 10.236.72.225 with SMTP id t61mr4558067yhd.227.1301282180962; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:16:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-95-147-62.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.147.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g31sm1739245yhd.26.2011.03.27.20.16.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:16:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D8FFD82.2040709@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:16:18 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.18) Gecko/20110325 Gentoo/2.0.13 SeaMonkey/2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] No LibX11 Libtool Archive Installed References: <20110327221640.ce25fdb4.frank.peters@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20110327221640.ce25fdb4.frank.peters@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a63e1bfd31176358938182f75eaee25f Frank Peters wrote: > Hello, > > The latest GTK+-2.24.3 failed to build on my system because of the > following error: > > /bin/grep: /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory > /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory > libtool: link: `/usr/lib64/libX11.la' is not a valid libtool archive > > The libX11.la that is missing should be in the x11-libs/libX11 package. > But why is libX11.la missing? > > I can emerge libX11 using USE="static-libs" or USE="-static-libs" > but libX11.la is not produced in either case. > > The emerge log when building libX11 always shows the following: > > Removing unnecessary ... x11-libs/libX11-1.4.2/image/usr/lib64/libX11-xcb.la > Removing unnecessary ... x11-libs/libX11-1.4.2/image/usr/lib64/libX11.la > > So the .la files are being produced but are being removed afterwards. > > Does anyone else have a missing /usr/lib64/libX11.la file? > > Frank Peters > > > I think I read on -dev that .la files were being removed. It seems to have been causing trouble when packages were being updating that were linked against each other. So, they made things so that they would work without them and removed them. That is oversimplified since it was a while back but I think that is normal nowadays. Someone correct me if I am wrong on this. Dale :-) :-)