pavicic wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:36:40PM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: >> pavicic wrote: >> [] >>> Yes, I'm deleting all *.la files in /sw/lib and all its subdirectories >>> but that doesn't help. >>> >>> grep: /sw/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory >> Then look in /usr/local/lib or elsewhere. It is an *.la file on *your* >> computer that contains the reference to the non-existing >> /sw/lib/libiconv.la. >> > > Finder gives nothing. > > Also neither > > find / -name libiconv.la
This has been discussed on the lists so often in the past months that I didn't think it necessary to explain once more. Here goes: The error you are getting comes from the fact that some *other* "libtool archive" file, that is, a file with extension ".la", contains a line dependency_libs=' ... /sw/lib/libiconv.la ... ' You have to find that file which, unfortunately, is not indicated in the error message (a regrettable shortcoming of libtool) and remove it or, better, edit it and remove everything in the dependency_libs list, so that the line reads dependency_libs='' The *.la files are text files which can be edited with any standard text editor (with admin privileges). The error message talks about "grep" and "sed", because libtool uses these tools to extract the dependency_libs list from the *.la file. A final explanation about the origin of the error: When that (as yet unknown) *.la file containing the reference to /sw/lib/libiconv.la was created during the build process of some other package, the file /sw/lib/libiconv.la *did* exist on the computer. Then it was removed, following advice smilar to what I gave above, namely to remove all *.la files inside /sw/. The latter advice was published as a reaction to the fact that Apple removed their *.la files inside /usr/lib on Snow Leopard and everybody who upgraded their Fink from Leopard to Snow Leopard was getting these same errors. HTH -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
