libX11.la ???

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

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.

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