> On 13 Sep 2016, at 03:19, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > > >> On Sep 12, 2016, at 9:08 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> >> wrote: >> What do you get when you run: >> port provides /opt/local/lib/libpng.la >> >> They actually provided that earlier: >> >>> /opt/local/lib/libpng.la is provided by: libpng > > David provided this information about his installation but Sinan didn't yet. > > But you know, not only should /opt/local/lib/libpng.la not exist on Mavericks > or later, it shouldn't be a symlink on any system; it should be a text file. > > If it's a symlink on your system, what's it a symlink to?
Here is the story from my file system Macintosh-2:/<2>lib% pwd /opt/local/lib Macintosh-2:/<2>lib% ls -l libpng.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 6 Sep 10:13 libpng.la@ -> libpng16.la Macintosh-2:/<2>lib% port provides libpng.la /opt/local/lib/libpng.la is provided by: libpng Macintosh-2:/<2>lib% ls libpng* libpng.a@ libpng.la@ libpng16.a libpng.dylib@ libpng16.16.dylib* libpng16.dylib@ Macintosh-2:/<2>lib% ls -l libpng16.la ls: libpng16.la: No such file or directory Macintosh-2:/<2>lib% port installed libpng The following ports are currently installed: libpng @1.6.21_0 libpng @1.6.22_0 libpng @1.6.23_0 libpng @1.6.25_0 (active) This looks to me as though it is saying that Ryan was right. the .la file does not exist, only a shadow of it which presumably won’t cause any harm. One question: why the 6 Sept date. Would my uninstall of python have changed the date on the broken symlink? One thing that seems to be brought out (by the erroneous answer by “port provides ligpng.la") is that I made a mistake when updating the OS, to have updated my MacPorts installation, rather than reinstalled. I have been hankering after reinstalling, but Ryan persuaded me not to. This seems to be a new bit of evidence that I ought to reinstall, but I would like Ryan to confirm that he now agrees with this, in the light of the new evidence. David _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
