On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:52:39AM -0400, Ben Abbott wrote: > On Aug 29, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > > > Ben Abbott wrote: > >> On Aug 29, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > [] > >>> I know that fontforge builds on i386/10.5 and x86_64/10.6. > >>> > >>> This looks like a case of upgrading from 10.5 and using packages > >>> built with xquartz. The only workaround is to rebuild all X11 > >>> using packages, unfortunately. > >>> > >>> Daniel > >> Is there a quick and simple way to determine which packages I've > >> installed depend upon X11? > > > > As your last error message showed, it is not only the X11-dependent > > packages that are concerned by Apple's removal of *.la files. It can > > be basically anything. > > > > What you could test, before throwing away /sw and starting from > > scratch, is to remove all *.la files from fink: > > > > sudo find /sw/lib -name \*\.la -delete > > > > (I hope this time I got it right). > > This might need to be repeated when a dev package is swapped in from > > an already compiled package. > > > > Remove also the *.la files in /usr/X11/lib if you created them. > > > > Then try to build fontforge and your other packages. > > > > -- > > Martin > > I thought I'd follow up. > > I did as Martin suggested and deleted the static libs.
Whoa there... .la is a libtool description file; .a is a static lib. Without .la, sometimes there may be trouble using libs that are static-only (.a with no .dylib), but that's a separate issue. dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
