Ah, yes. That did the trick. One of the packages that this package was dependent on had the .la file in it. When I modify that PKGBUILD to whack the .la, and rebuild both pkgs, the problem goes away.
Thanks Damir. DR > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Damir Perisa > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:55 PM > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux > Subject: Re: [arch] How do you libtool slay a package? Le Tuesday 11 October 2005 16:02, Rosenstrauch, David a écrit : | I've got an AUR package that I'm trying to rebuild, but it's not | compiling due to the libtool slay: | | grep: /usr/lib/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory | /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory | libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libstdc++.la' is not a valid libtool archive | | How does one go about whacking this? somewhere in your system, there is an .la file that contains the "/usr/lib/libstdc++.la" reference. the package that contains this file that contains this reference has to be libtool-slayed to make your package build. to check where this reference comes from, do this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cd /usr/lib [EMAIL PROTECTED] lib]$ grep "libstdc++.la" *.la this should result in something like this output: somefile.la:dependency_libs='... ... ... /usr/lib/libstdc++.la ... ... ...' then you need to find out what package owns somefile.la: pacman -Qo /usr/lib/somefile.la and then this package needs to be slayed. this means simply that you need to remove the somefile.la you found from the package, re-relase it and your package in trouble will build again. to remove all .la files from some package, you can add this line to the build() at the end in the PKGBUILD: find $startdir/pkg -name '*.la' -exec rm {} \; ... ============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.csfb.com/legal_terms/disclaimer_external_email.shtml ============================================================================== _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
