Re: [gentoo-user] Notice: possible past, present and future breakage related to .la files

2010-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-09-29 6:40 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > First of all, you should install lafilefixer and let it pass through the > currently-installed system: > > # emerge lafilefixer > # lafilefixer --justfixit > > This will convert the references to libtool archives to the -llibname > form, which wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Notice: possible past, present and future breakage related to .la files

2010-10-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 00:40 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Hi all users, > > Secondly, you can avoid any future requirement for this by sanitising > the newly installed .la files; this can be done either by using the > (currently testing) Portage 2.1.9 series, or by adding the following > sni

Re: [gentoo-user] Notice: possible past, present and future breakage related to .la files

2010-09-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:40:06 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Secondly, you can avoid any future requirement for this by sanitising > the newly installed .la files; this can be done either by using the > (currently testing) Portage 2.1.9 series, or by adding the following > snippet to your /etc/

[gentoo-user] Notice: possible past, present and future breakage related to .la files

2010-09-29 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Hi all users, Some of you might have noticed, others might notice, a few would probably not notice at all, that some Gentoo developers have started removing the libtool archive files from packages that they maintain; these changes have some times been applied to stable ebuilds as well, but in all