Re: libtool and /usr/local/lib

[Geoff]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 00:58:28 -0700
Jacob Meuser <address@hidden> wrote:

<snip>
> 
> probably some .la file is requesting /usr/lib/libxml2.la
> as a dependency, my guess would be libMagick.la.  you can
> probably get away with editing the problem file(s) to
> reflect the correct path to libxml2.la.
> 
> to find the offending .la file(s), do something like the
> following:
> 
> $ for i in /usr/lib/lib*.la /usr/local/lib/lib*.la ; do \
> > grep -l '/usr/lib/libxml2\.la' $i ; done

Thanks for the quick and helpful reply Jacob.  Your little
script throws up 32 .la files which depend on
/usr/lib/libxml2.  LibMagick.la is not one of them, but many
gnome libraries are, and, although I don't run
gnome, I do have several applications which use the
libraries.  Gnome was certainly implicated in the failure of
xine-libs to compile.

I guess it is easier to make the symlinks, or reinstall
libxml2 in /usr/lib, than to edit all those files.

> it's best though, when updating/reinstalling a package, to
> first completely remove all dependent packages, then
> reinstall them.

That is something I have wondered about before, but I have
run linux now for 5 years (including Linux from Scratch),
and I don't recall ever encountering a problem like this
one.  I suppose I have just been lucky.  Further, my 32
dependent libraries show that finding and recompiling all
dependencies in any given case could be a major enterprise.

We live and learn.

Thanks again,

Geoff