Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:53:39 -0600 > Mark Felder <f...@feld.me> wrote: > >> For the life of me I can't work around this xcb-util issue. This is >> a pretty fresh install and I have not made any workaround symlinks. >> >> I ran: >> >> # portmaster -R -r xcb-util-0 >> >> And the problem persists. It didn't even complete all the packages >> because some were still erroring on missing xcb libraries. >> >> Example, editors/mousepad: >> >> >> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-aux.la' >> or unhandled argument `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-aux.la' >> gmake[2]: *** [mousepad] Error 1 > > I'm getting this same error in several ports. Just exactly which > package is supposed to be providing libxcb-aux.la? And why isn't it? >
I'm not exactly certain about this, and so am probably wrong. I thought the '*.la' files were 'linker archives' created by libtool. But I never really got completely through the process of fully understanding exactly how all the autotools, make and gmake, and libtool operate. -Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
