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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Library file formats
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:55:20
Message-Id: hba8gb$do7$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Library file formats by Neil Bothwick
1 On 10/16/2009 04:37 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:20:30 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 >
4 >> I thought I'd have a play with swami, but the emerge fails with
5 >> "/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libogg.la: No such file or directory",
6 >> and indeed there is none such.
7 >
8 > The elog message from the last libogg install explains this. Run
9 > lafilefixer --justfixit.
10
11 There is no manpage for lafilefixer, but the --help flag prints:
12
13 --justfixit Choose some reasonable dirs, such as /usr/lib*, etc. ,
14 find all .la files and fix them to not use .la files
15 for linking
16
17 I can't make sense out of that -- one of the major uses of libtool (I thought)
18 is for linking. Can anyone 'splain that to me?
19
20 Thanks.

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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Library file formats Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Library file formats Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>