Re: libtool and /usr/local/lib

[Jacob Meuser]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 08:16:43AM +0100, Geoff wrote:

> /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2   -o vips 
> vips.o -pthread ../../libsrc/libvips.la -L/usr/X11R6/lib
> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -lMagick -ltiff
> -lfreetype -ljpeg -lpng -lexif -ldpstk -ldps -lXt -lXext
> -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 -lz -lpthread -lm
> -L/usr/lib/pkgconfig -lpng -ltiff -lz -ljpeg    -lm -ldl
> mkdir .libs libtool: link: cannot find the library
> `/usr/lib/libxml2.la

> Any advice please?

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

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

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