Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> said:
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> On 1/9/10 9:49 PM, Jess H. Brewer wrote:
>> Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> On 1/9/10 11:11 AM, Jess H. Brewer wrote:
>>>>> Every since I upgraded to Snow Leopard I have been unable
>>>>> to complete any `fink update-all' without running into the
>>>>> following error message:
>>>>>
>>> . . .
>>>>> libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libiconv.la' is not a valid libtool archive
>>> . . .
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you think this is related to the OS upgrade, or might it
>>>>> be due to some (unsuccessful) efforts I have made to get
>>>>> cernlib working by hook or crook?  Any help appreciated.  -- Jess
>>>>>
>>>>>
>> 
>> It's totally related to the OS upgrade.  Apple decided to ditch .la
>> files that were there in Leopard.
>> 
>> A workaround to try is
>> 
>>     sudo find /sw/lib -name *.la -delete
>> 
>> That will remove all of Fink's .la files, which contain references to
>> the now nonexistent Apple .la files.
>>>
>
>> Aha.  I should have guessed.  Every upgrade is a bus wreck.
>> I did as you said and then `fink selfupdate; fink update-all'
>> which ran all day (gobbling up several GB of disk space,
>> presumably to create new versions of all the .la files) and
>> finally died while building webkit:
>
>> ld: library not found for -lXt
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[1]: *** [libwebkit-1.0.la] Error 1
>
>> I tried running `fink selfupdate; fink update-all' over again
>> (sometimes it seems to take two passes) and (after another
>> couple of hours) got the same result.  So I'm back where I
>> started except with lots less disk space.  <sigh>
>
> 'fink cleanup' will help with the disk space.   Actually, the .la files
> themselves don't force a rebuild; this is just the normal state of being
> a bit behind.
>
> As for the webkit issue, we're going to need to see the full line of
> output just before what you've posted for debugging purposes.

Committed I-think-a-fix. Webkit had been learning some flags from one
of the .la that got nuked. I suspect there are a few of these types of
situations lurking, easy to fix as soon as someone can report the
actual compiler call/etc as akh notes.

dan

-- 
Daniel Macks
dma...@netspace.org
http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks



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