Re: [Fink-users] fontconfig, and finding packages

[Alexander Hansen]

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Nathaniel Echols wrote:
> I tried updating fink ("fink selfupdate" followed by "fink update-all")
> for the first time in a few weeks, and it promptly failed on gtk+2-2.16.6-2:
> 
> grep: /sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/libfontconfig.la
> <http://libfontconfig.la>: No such file or directory
> sed: /sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/libfontconfig.la <http://libfontconfig.la>:
> No such file or directory
> libtool: link: `/sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/libfontconfig.la
> <http://libfontconfig.la>' is not a valid libtool archive
> 
> I have no idea which package this is part of, but "fink reinstall
> fontconfig2-shlibs" definitely did not fix the problem.  This is not the
> first time I've seen errors like this, and I still have no idea how to
> fix it other than wiping out all the files I find with references
> to /sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/libfontconfig.la <http://libfontconfig.la>.
>  (In this case, there are multiple files in /sw/lib that refer to it.)
>  What is breaking?
> 
> Second, a feature request: when I run a command like "fink install
> fontconfig", if the package is not found could it please print something
> more helpful than "no package found for specification 'fontconfig'"?
>  There is obviously a package somewhere that does have fontconfig in the
> name (Google turned up several, in fact, and I can't tell the
> difference).  Even just accepting wildcards (e.g. "fink install
> fontconfig*") the way apt-get does would be helpful.
> 
> thanks,
> Nat
> 
> 

It's helpful to tell us what OS you're on, because of differences in OS
versions.

libfontconfig.la is a symbolic link on 10.5 and later.  Try "fink
rebuild fontconfig2-dev ; fink reinstall fontconfig2-dev" (make sure
it's reinstalled).

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Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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