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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files : SOLVED
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 02:08:26
Message-Id: 20110821020559.GD3133@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files by Philip Webb
1 110820 Philip Webb wrote:
2 > I've run into a strange problem updating my netbook.
3 > I merged glib-2.28.8 successfully as part of a Revdep-Rebuild job,
4 > it being a dep for one of the pkgs in the R-R list.
5 > However after that, merging gtk+-2.24.4 librsvg-2.34.0 libglade-2.6.4
6 > all failed with a libtool error : "libtool: link: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.0.la
7 > is not a valid libtool archive" or ditto for libgobject ;
8 > indeed, those files do not exist in the netbook,
9 > but in my already updated desktop machine, glib did create them.
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11 After I updated gcc libtool , the other pkgs merged with no problem.
12 Dale's reply contained a hint : .la files have been dropped,
13 so the latest libtool doesn't look for them presumably;
14 it still leaves the puzzle why they're present in the desktop machine.
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