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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, > a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. > Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
