Re: [gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files

[Dale]

Philip Webb wrote:
> I've run into a strange problem updating my netbook.
> I merged  glib-2.28.8  successfully as part of a Revdep-Rebuild job,
> it being a dep for one of the pkgs in the R-R list.
> However after that, merging  gtk+-2.24.4  librsvg-2.34.0  libglade-2.6.4
> all failed with a libtool error : "libtool: link: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.0.la
> is not a valid libtool archive" or ditto for  libgobject ;
> indeed, those files do not exist in the netbook,
> but in my already updated desktop machine,  glib  did create them.
> The  glib  merge msgs did include a recommendation to remerge  dbus-glib ,
> but that required  dbus&  that too failed with a similar libtool error !
> I tried remerging  glib , but it still didn't create the needed  .la  files.
>
> The only item thrown up by Google was a Gentoo forum thread
> re a different problem, but recent&  suggesting  gcc  needed updating
> or users could run into problems with Gnome-type apps.
> I'm presently updating to  gcc-4.4.5  (previously 4.4.3),
> but that will take>  3 hr  in the netbook, so any advice is welcome.
>
>

This is based on a quick read of your post.  If you are just now 
noticing that .la files are missing, you are in for a treat.  They have 
been removing .la files for quite some time now.

I would suggest running revdep-rebuild and it may take a few times.  I'm 
not sure if using a 2.2 version of portage would help on this or not.

Dale

:-)  :-)