Re: libtool problem on system with 32 and 64 bit libraries

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Bernd Speiser wrote:
> thanks for this info. 1.5.26 is the default for openSUSE 11.0. However, I 
> have installed libtool version 2.2.6 on my system now.
> With this, after regeneration of of the aclocal.m4 files, I still get an 
> error message, although a different one:
>
> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libXfixes.la' or unhandled 
> argument `/usr/lib/libXfixes.la'
>
> Here is the result of a call to `locate libXfixes':
> /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3
> /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
> /usr/lib64/libXfixes.a
> /usr/lib64/libXfixes.la
> /usr/lib64/libXfixes.so
> /usr/lib64/libXfixes.so.3
> /usr/lib64/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
> So, there still for this library the incorrect path is used. Or am I doing 
> something wrong?

I expect that the problem is that a .la file loaded via the linking 
search path refers to this /usr/lib/libXfixes.la file which does not 
exist (because it was deleted or never was installed).  The .la files 
are just ASCII text files that you can open in a text editor.

Check your linking search path (set via LDFLAGS) and see what 
requested libraries do have a .la file which is refering to the 
missing /usr/lib/libXfixes.la file.  Changing the linker search path 
might resolve the problem, or the wrong .la file could be manually 
edited, or even deleting the wrong .la file might help solve the 
problem.

Bob
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