----- Original Message -----From: Paul Hartman Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011
11:24 amSubject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean - libcurl.laTo:
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM, 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)> >I did the lafilefixer and
revdep-rebuild and it still happens. I think it may be in my project
directory. In there I have three files libtool, Makefile.in, and acinclude.m4
each make reference to libtool. It's commented out in the configure.ac file.
