On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:45 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> unfortunately, libtool is one of my black spots in my Linux knowlegde.
> 
> Trying to emerge app-editors/kile-2.0.3-r1  libtool fails with
> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpcreposix.la'
> 
> The libtool command is too long to include here, but it definitely
> doesn't contain pcreposix.
> So, why does libtool try to find /usr/lib/libpcreposix.la (which doesn't
> exist, indeed)?
> Howto fix this?
> 
> Many thanks for a hint (a libtool tutorial?)

There was a bug about this (libpcre not installing the .la files). Try
reemerging the package /usr/lib/libpcreposix.a (or .so) belongs to
(equery belongs, qfile). Most likely libpcre.

Philipp


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