Frank Peters wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The latest GTK+-2.24.3 failed to build on my system because of the
> following error:
>
> /bin/grep: /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory
> /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory
> libtool: link: `/usr/lib64/libX11.la' is not a valid libtool archive
>
> The libX11.la that is missing should be in the x11-libs/libX11 package.
> But why is libX11.la missing?
>
> I can emerge libX11 using USE="static-libs" or USE="-static-libs"
> but libX11.la is not produced in either case.
>
> The emerge log when building libX11 always shows the following:
>
> Removing unnecessary ... x11-libs/libX11-1.4.2/image/usr/lib64/libX11-xcb.la
> Removing unnecessary ... x11-libs/libX11-1.4.2/image/usr/lib64/libX11.la
>
> So the .la files are being produced but are being removed afterwards.
>
> Does anyone else have a missing /usr/lib64/libX11.la file?
>
> Frank Peters
>
>
>    

I think I read on -dev that .la files were being removed.  It seems to 
have been causing trouble when packages were being updating that were 
linked against each other.  So, they made things so that they would work 
without them and removed them.

That is oversimplified since it was a while back but I think that is 
normal nowadays.  Someone correct me if I am wrong on this.

Dale

:-)  :-)