Re: [gentoo-user] What is libX11.la, and how do I build it?

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Alan Mackenzie  wrote:

> I try to emerge, say, gtk+.  It fails building the cairo lib.  The build
> log indicates:
> 
> /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory

Upstream bug. Cairo is broken, they rely on unreliable stuff.
(there's a lot of traffic about .la files and why they are
very bad idea from day one in the mail archives ...)


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Re: [gentoo-user] What is libX11.la, and how do I build it?

[Philip Webb]

110418 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I try to emerge, say, gtk+.  It fails building the cairo lib.
> The build log indicates:
>   /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory

I have

  root:504 ~> cd /usr/lib64
  root:505 lib64> ls libX11*
libX11.la  libX11.so  libX11.so.6  libX11.so.6.3.0  libX11-xcb.la  
libX11-xcb.so  libX11-xcb.so.1  libX11-xcb.so.1.0.0
  root:506 lib64> equery belongs /usr/lib64/libX11.la
  [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib64/libX11.la in *... ]
  x11-libs/libX11-1.4.1 (/usr/lib64/libX11.la)

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Re: [gentoo-user] What is libX11.la, and how do I build it?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:35:56 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> I try to emerge, say, gtk+.  It fails building the cairo lib.  The build
> log indicates:
> 
> /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory

Run: 
emerge lafilefixer
lafilefixer --justfixit

Later portage versions handle this automatically.


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[gentoo-user] What is libX11.la, and how do I build it?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Gentoo.

I try to emerge, say, gtk+.  It fails building the cairo lib.  The build
log indicates:

/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory

.  Looking into lib64, most libraries have versions .a, .la, .so*.  What
is .la?  "file libevtlog.la" says "libtool library file".  What does
this mean?  Is it the 64 bit version, or something?

Why is libX11 lacking the .la version?  More to the point, what do I
have to do to build it?  I've already tried setting the "static-libs"
use flag in /etc/portage/package.use, to no avail.

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