On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:45 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > unfortunately, libtool is one of my black spots in my Linux knowlegde. > > Trying to emerge app-editors/kile-2.0.3-r1 libtool fails with > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpcreposix.la' > > The libtool command is too long to include here, but it definitely > doesn't contain pcreposix. > So, why does libtool try to find /usr/lib/libpcreposix.la (which doesn't > exist, indeed)? > Howto fix this? > > Many thanks for a hint (a libtool tutorial?)
There was a bug about this (libpcre not installing the .la files). Try reemerging the package /usr/lib/libpcreposix.a (or .so) belongs to (equery belongs, qfile). Most likely libpcre. Philipp