It oughtn't need to be periodic, I believe, as long as one uses "fink
rebuild" rather than "fink install" to restore any missing .la files
that packages require, as those will then be reconstituted against a
10.6 rather than 10.5 system.

William G. Scott wrote:
> Dear Felix:
>
> As far as I understand it, if you upgraded 32-bit fink to 10.6, you are going 
> to have to periodically delete *.la files in /sw/lib (they get reinstalled 
> when dev packages are reinstalled).
>
> Since you are already using my unofficial debian repository,
>
> fink -b install coot
>
> or
>
> sudo apt-get install coot
>
> should get you around the problem if you don't want to recursively delete the 
> /sw/lib/  *.la files all the time.
>
> If you have 64-bit capability, it might be time to throw everything in the 
> fire and start fresh with that.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
> Coot 0.6 installation failed. X11 elements are missing, See below:
>
> grep: /usr/X11/lib/libXext.la: No such file or directory
> sed: /usr/X11/lib/libXext.la: No such file or directory
> libtool: link: `/usr/X11/lib/libXext.la' is not a valid libtool archive
> make[1]: *** [libcoot-surface.la] Error 1
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> ### execution of /var/tmp/tmp.2.QPh9Oy failed, exit code 2
>
>
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