Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] .la files???

[Douglas McMorris <virage83 mail utexas edu>]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 03:51, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 18:58, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> > El jue, 18-09-2003 a las 19:55, Douglas McMorris escribió:
> > > I recently reinstalled linux and installed xd2 then xd unstable from
> > > there.  I think i built rb at some point before i upgraded to xd
> > > unstable... anyways...
> > > 
> > > when i try to build it now i get the following error:
> > > 
> > > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la'
> > > make[2]: *** [test-rhythmdb-simple] Error 1
> > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/douglas/Code/rhythmbox/rhythmdb'
> > > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/douglas/Code/rhythmbox'
> > > make: *** [all] Error 2
> > > 
> > > 
> > > what is a .la file???
> > 
> > It's a library like .so but it's for static links, it should be inside
> > the gnomevfs devel package.
> 
> Not entirely true, .la files are generated by libtool when it builds so
> that if the files are linked on weird platforms it has all of the
> information required.  However, Linux is not one of these weird
> platforms and bugs in libtool means that .la files cause more breakages
> than they fix a lot of the time.
> 
> > > anyone know what i can do to fix this??
> > Just install the development package for gnomevfs.
> 
> If this doesn't work (i.e. its already installed), one solution is to
> simply delete /usr/lib/*.la. Honest.  Just move them to ~/la-files/ if
> you don't trust the system to still work after they have been removed. 
> Note that a lot of distributions have started to delete the .la files
> from the packages.
> 
> Ross


Awesome, deleted them all and its back and working... thanks a ton.
-- 
Douglas McMorris <virage83@mail.utexas.edu>