Re: /usr/lib/libbonobo.la missing from bonobo-devel

[Simon Piette <spiette generation net>]

* Havoc Pennington (hp redhat com) [011106 09:52]:
> 
> Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com> writes:
> > When I try to build packages that require bonobo, libtool will
> > complain about failure to find /usr/lib/libbonobo.la. This when bonobo
> > and bonobo-devel from GNOMEhide are installed. Shouldn't .la files be
> > included in the devel package?
> 
> Yes, probably. (I am flirting with the idea of blowing away all .la
> files, but it's only done in a couple packages right now.)
> 
> You shouldn't need libbonobo.la unless you built some other library
> against bonobo when libbonobo.la was installed, thus creating a
> dependency in the .la file for that library. At least AFAIK... I'd be
> interested to hear of other cases where libtool thinks it needs this
> file.

I needed /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf.la to build eog-0.6. To build it, I
rebuild the gdk-pixbuf package, including the .la files

Simon