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 1MyqFY-0004ct-9I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:05:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5D45E077D; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com (mail-ew0-f211.google.com [209.85.219.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DECDE077D for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so1680204ewy.34 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:05:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=3w/XGyleGP1pWf7sbVqRob+KBjAJXnH81eZx5DrYQmQ=; b=GDyynt3pVGZoiCu8l5ygYK12qEJS9k7vegdsKe4nJfxk7pZSPIQQwfuvcpTr++VKM4 vMLqFDESA2NSpF0AC1hOneDdkGfvNYGVb/WtUjQUqwn+QCsQoOT/4h/DO6C9sdFj6fbQ +OUsKUuDiipflFb87doipM3VtRNU2LVpSdG2M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=xuRuCAe3vjajKE/6Rf4Q+gIJ37rI+PkrhyIW2lp5Bwcjp7X+qsPpmyLQZAu7lxWHOc 3wwXLKEJPQ2tEs4rSa/KOF2xUFesoQ/CWqG1nHREgKX7m86aICOKRgC1dlynukFzLBmA ZKegjCJtwgSccZSaV6bWTuZ4MwbYc18yzCszk= Received: by 10.216.85.130 with SMTP id u2mr670399wee.135.1255712753516; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:05:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t2sm2880279gve.27.2009.10.16.10.05.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:05:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Library file formats Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:05:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31.3r4; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <200910161220.30636.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20091016123704.26723242@majikthise> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910161905.49034.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 09f8af8e-078e-4a5b-84fe-390ee1ee404e X-Archives-Hash: 0466411cb11aebfab5b88f542e15ed8a On Freitag 16 Oktober 2009, walt wrote: > On 10/16/2009 04:37 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:20:30 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> I thought I'd have a play with swami, but the emerge fails with > >> "/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libogg.la: No such file or directory", > >> and indeed there is none such. > > > > The elog message from the last libogg install explains this. Run > > lafilefixer --justfixit. > > There is no manpage for lafilefixer, but the --help flag prints: > > --justfixit Choose some reasonable dirs, such as /usr/lib*, > etc. , find all .la files and fix them to not use .la files for linking > > I can't make sense out of that -- one of the major uses of libtool (I > thought) is for linking. Can anyone 'splain that to me? > > Thanks. > AFAIK the help printout is not entirely correct. It corrects the path' used in the la files, I recommend this reads: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/04/14/what-about-those-la-files http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/07/02/again-about-la-files-or-why-should-they-be- killed-off-sooner-rather-than-later http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/04/18/some-details-about-our-old-friends-the-la- files http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/09/28/removing-la-files-for-dum-w-uncertain-people