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

[Bernd Speiser]

Bernd Speiser wrote:
> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Since I couldn't find the wrong .la file (no direct request for 
> libXfixes.la), I used another route: I installed the missing 
> /usr/lib/libXfixes.la from the openSUSE distribution (and also a couple 
> of other X related .la files which were requested).
> Having done this, I come back to the error message I already had with 
> libtool 1.5.26:
>
> /usr/lib/libXi.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
>
> There are libXi.so in both /usr/lib and /usr/lib64.
> Would that error message mean that in some of the .la files there is an 
> incorrect reference to the /usr/lib path which needs to be changed into 
> /usr/lib64?
>
> Best Regards
> Bernd


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