On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM, <dhk...@optonline.net> wrote: > emerge --depclean removed libcurl.la a few days ago. I have a program > that's not in world that uses it when built: libtool complains that it's > missing. In /usr/lib64 there are libcurl .so files but no .la files. > > How can I get the libcurl.la library back and keep it so emerge > --depclean doesn't remove it?
Have you run "lafilefixer --justfixit"? I wonder if you have old .la files from packages emerged before portage 2.1.9. After running it once, you shouldn't need it anymore since portage will auto-fix them upon installation. You should run the lafilefixer command before trying revdep-rebuild, or else you might have a lot of unnecessary emerges. AFAIK the usage of .la files is basically deprecated and only a few packages still require them. Flameeyes posted a lot of details about it on his blog last year. (http://blog.flameeyes.eu)
