Anthony Tekatch wrote: >I am using Redhat 7.2 with Ximian. I cannot easily remove esound since it >is woven into many other packages. Just installing from the esound source >did not solve any problems for me so instead I removed Gnome dependcies >from my pygtk application (gonvert) and now I don't have to worry about >gnome-python bindings for now. > >I don't feel like installing "bad-ass" software on my system (garnome) >just yet :) > > > The cause of the problem is that various distributions have started removing the .la files from their packages (Red Hat and Ximian, for instance). Their reason for doing this is that the libtool .la files can cause problems when building software. Eg. for a package that includes a library and a few utilities, if you do a buildroot install (like you would when building a binary package), libtool would decide to link the utilities against the installed version of the library, rather than the newly built version. This would cause problems if the installed version had a different soname than the new version (you wouldn't be able to cleanly upgrade). Also, for systems with proper shared library dependencies (most systems these days), the .la file doesn't provide any extra information.
The downside is that .la files try to pull in the .la files of other libtool libraries when you link a program. So if you try and link a program to libB.so/libB.la, which was built on a system with libA.so installed, but your system is missing libA.la, you will get an error. You can fix the error by deleting the libB.la file, so that libtool just lets the linker find things. What this means is that any of the .la files have been removed, you are best off removing _all_ of them. Otherwise the effort spent removing the .la files will cause about as many problems as you had to start with. James. -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux.conf.au http://linux.conf.au/ WWW: http://www.daa.com.au/~james/ | Jan 22-25 Perth, Western Australia. _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
