Re: ORBit-2.la not found

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Frank Worsley <fworsley shaw ca> writes:
> 
> after upgrading to the latest ORBit2 snapshots from Ximian I get the
> following error when building nautilus:
> 
> grep: /usr/lib/libORBit-2.la: No such file or directory
> sed: can't read /usr/lib/libORBit-2.la: No such file or directory
> libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libORBit-2.la' is not a valid libtool archive
> make[2]: *** [libnautilus-private.la] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/gnome/head/cvs/nautilus/libnautilus-private'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/gnome/head/cvs/nautilus'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> 
> Looks like the RPMs didn't include the .la files.
> 

The problem here is most likely that Nautilus was built using an ORBit
that had .la files, but you've installed an ORBit that doesn't have
them. /bin/rm -f /usr/lib/*.la solves all problems.

Havoc ".la files evil"