Recently, because of the libpng upgrade fiasco that caused so many 
people to pull their hair out with .la file problems, the main Gentoo 
developers started having libtool compile things with '--as-needed', 
which is generally a good thing.

However, I just recently started setting up a new machine with KDE 3 
from the kde-sunset overlay, and ran into this build issue with akode:

Making all in akodeplay
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/akode-2.0.2/work/akode-2.0.2/akode/akodeplay'
if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. 
-I../../akode/lib -I../../akode/lib -I../../akode/lib     -O2 
-march=athlon64 -pipe  -MT akodeplay.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/akodeplay.Tpo" 
-c -o akodeplay.o akodeplay.cpp; \
         then mv -f ".deps/akodeplay.Tpo" ".deps/akodeplay.Po"; else rm 
-f ".deps/akodeplay.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
/bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link 
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++  -O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe   -Wl,-O1 
-Wl,--as-needed -o akodeplay  akodeplay.o ../lib/libakode.la
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++: ../lib/.libs/libakode.so: No such file or 
directory
make[3]: *** [akodeplay] Error 1

This is from a fairly fresh and up-to-date install of Gentoo that uses 
GCC 4.4.3 as the system compiler, and it looks like libtool is doing the 
new '--as-needed' thing, though I don't know if that's related to the 
failure or not.

Has anyone else seen this?  I don't know how to fix it, but it would be 
good if we can keep the overlay able to compile KDE on a fresh machine 
if needed.  Let me know if you want me to try anything.

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