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Date:      Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:06:57 -0500
From:      Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UPDATING 20120116 -- x11/xcb-util -- instructions not working
Message-ID:  <jfrc30$9ab$1@dough.gmane.org>
References:  <op.v8nabpzw34t2sn@tech304> <20120125205344.6597f949@cox.net>

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Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:53:39 -0600
> Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> wrote:
> 
>> For the life of me I can't work around this xcb-util issue. This is
>> a pretty fresh install and I have not made any workaround symlinks.
>> 
>> I ran:
>> 
>> # portmaster -R -r xcb-util-0
>> 
>> And the problem persists. It didn't even complete all the packages
>> because some were still erroring on missing xcb libraries.
>> 
>> Example, editors/mousepad:
>> 
>> 
>> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-aux.la'
>> or unhandled argument `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-aux.la'
>> gmake[2]: *** [mousepad] Error 1
> 
> I'm getting this same error in several ports.  Just exactly which
> package is supposed to be providing libxcb-aux.la?  And why isn't it?
> 

I'm not exactly certain about this, and so am probably wrong. I thought the 
'*.la' files were 'linker archives' created by libtool. But I never really 
got completely through the process of fully understanding exactly how all 
the autotools, make and gmake, and libtool operate.

-Mike





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