Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:39:10 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>, Jakub Lach <jakub_lach@mailplus.pl> Subject: Re: UPDATING 20120116 -- x11/xcb-util -- instructions not working Message-ID: <20120128033910.38feeef5@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <jfrc30$9ab$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <op.v8nabpzw34t2sn@tech304> <20120125205344.6597f949@cox.net> <jfrc30$9ab$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:06:57 -0500 Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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. Yes, that's right. > But I never really got completely through the process of fully > understanding exactly how all the autotools, make and gmake, and > libtool operate. I did some research on this issue yesterday, and found the answer. I posted a complete explanation with step-by-step instructions to the FreeBSD Forums at: http://forums.FreeBSD.org/showthread.php?p=163415#post163415 Sorry, I should have followed up here sooner as well. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net
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