Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 06:57:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libX11.la ??? Message-ID: <20040811065440.L74766@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <200408091206.42399.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <20040809105748.E690@pukruppa.net> <200408091206.42399.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Monday 09 August 2004 11:04, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I am running a recent -CURRENT with xorg and came across this >> problem: >> one port (/x11-wm/metacity) requires libx11.la to build, which >> can be produced by /x11/libX11 , but the latter conflicts with >> xorg. > > Metacity should not really need libx11.la to build. What likely happened is > that a dependency of metacity picked up libx11.la when it was present in your > filesystem (perhaps installed due to a bug in a xfree/xorg package or because > you yourself have experimented with the single libX* ports at one time). > Libtool generates dependencies on libtool-archives (.la files) if it finds > them, and things break if they're subsequently removed. > >> What can I do? > > You need to find out what port exactly introduces the dependency on libx11.la > and recompile it. Most likely the dependency is recorded in a .la file itself > - try find /usr/local/ -name \*.la | xargs grep libx11.la and find /usr/X11R6 > -name \*.la | xargs grep libx11.la and see if anything turns up. Thanks, I did some forced upgrades on suspicious ports. Now it works. Regards, Uli. > > -- > ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org > (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org > \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org > +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+
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