On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:41:13AM -0400, Christopher Conroy wrote: > a few days ago, I went to go update all my world packages, but xfce > was complaining about not having libX11.la...i did an emerge -e > xorg-x11 which seems to have fixed that, but now it complains that it > doesn't have libICE.la...I do have the libICE libraries in /usr/lib > (libICE.a libICE.so libICE.so.6 libICE.so.6.3), but I > have no idea how to manually generate the needed .la file. > this doesn't seem to cause any crashes on my system (although I do
You won't get any crashes from a missing .la file. .la is used by the current braindead incarnations of libtool, pkg-config, and configure. You'll probably have difficulty building stuff from source without it, though. Try asking google. It's a text file, not a binary file, so you should be more or less okay. Ben -- Ben Stern UNIX & Networks Monkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] This post does not represent FTI, even if I claim it does. Neener neener. UM Linux Users' Group Electromagnetic Networks Microbrew Software
