Hi, On Jun 17, 2012, at 16:58, Martin Costabel wrote:
> On 17/06/12 19:50, SciFi wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm having severe trouble trying to (re)build my X11 apps. I'm still using >> 10.6.8 and do my own builds by hand in 32-bit mode. >> >> The *.la files are totally gone in the XQuartx-2.7.2.pkg -- and something >> wiped 'em out in my local trees (the 'proper' X11/lib subdir on my local >> disk drive). >> >> I peeked into the 2.7.2 pkg with Pacifist directly -- the only files in its >> /opt/X11/lib subdir are those named *.dylib -- nothing else is in there! >> (please see attached PNG snapshot) >> >> I swear they were there months earlier -- I'm sure I'd compiled things with >> no problem back then! > > You are about 4 years late to this battle. The *.la files were removed from > Xquartz in version 2.3.0-rc5 or something, in 2008. They never existed on > MacOSX 10.6. At the time there was some fight about the best way to handle > this. I had even a script that automatically reconstituted suitable *.la > files from the dylibs in /usr/X11. Finally everyone got used to their > absence, and for example Fink found that you can avoid all problems if you > purge your own *.la files by emptying the dependency_libs list. > >> There's no way I can rebuild absolutely everything to eliminate all ~.la >> files for all projects I am using. > > Run something like > perl -pi -e "s/^(dependency_libs)=.*/\1='"''"'/" > on them. Thank you very much to take time explaining and offering a good 'edit' line to show exactly what should be done. I did do some net-searches and reading on the topic, which showed me that emptying-out the dependency_libs seems to be a common ploy across platforms. After backing-up the files being affected (just in case, y'know), it seems to do the job to let me continue building things here. Thanks again. :)
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