portupgrades fail because of missing /usr/local/lib/liblzma.la

[Ewald Jenisch]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 01:45:02PM -0400, b. f. wrote:
> > o) What can I do to get ports recognize the correct location of the
> > xz-libraries?
> 
> As I wrote above, some more information would help.  I'm guessing that
> you have a port that (unfortunately) uses libtool to perform linking,
> and has an erroneous /usr/local/lib/lzma.la entry in a libtool archive
> file (*.la), or is using some combination of uncommon  linker flags
> and sloppy use of -L/usr/local/lib.  Does a search like:
> 
> fgrep -e lzma -nHr /usr/local/lib --include='*.la'
> 
> yield any results?  If you see any references in a libtool archive to
> the nonexistent "/usr/local/lib/liblzma.la", try removing and then
> rebuilding the port that owns that libtool archive -- you should be
> able to determine the port by running "pkg_info -W" with the full path
> of the libtool archive as an argument.
> 

Hi,

First of all I'm posting my reply to both -questions where I sent my
original question to as well as -ports where you sent your reply so
others are seeing this too.

In short - thanks to your hints everything's healthy again :-))

Here's what I did (in case others are suffering from this problem too):

fgrep -e lzma -nHr /usr/local/lib --include='*.la' yielded a bunch of
results - grep-ed for "/usr/local/lib/liblzma.la".  Then feeded these
into pkg_info -W which nicely pointed me to the corresponding port
where this library comes from. The only thing I had to do then was to
make deinstall;make clean; make install this port.

In my case it was e.g. the "ImageMagick-6.7.0.10_1" port causing all
the mess.

So thanks to you all who responded. It's great to have such a
knowledgeable and helpful community out there - you indeed learn
something new every day.

-ewald