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Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: Library file formats
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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.