From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: libtool: error: cannot find the library '/usr/lib/libxcb.la'...
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 22:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30dac0fe-1a38-4279-bd9b-df021f6f13c7@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b804854-cab1-6107-d853-028bd92323c1@gmail.com>
On 8/21/2016 11:04 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 21/08/2016 06:01, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 8/20/2016 5:54 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> I'm trying to rebuild texlive, and the build on x86 is failing as
>>> follows:
>>>
>>> make[2]: Entering directory
>>> '/home/kbrown/src/cygtexlive/texlive/texlive-20160520-2.i686/build/texk/xdvik'
>>>
>>>
>>> /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type
>>> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-unknown-pragmas -ggdb -O2 -pipe
>>> -Wimplicit-function-declaration
>>> -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/kbrown/src/cygtexlive/texlive/texlive-20160520-2.i686/build=/usr/src/debug/texlive-20160520-2
>>>
>>> -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/kbrown/src/cygtexlive/texlive/texlive-20160520-2.i686/src/texlive-20160520-source=/usr/src/debug/texlive-20160520-2
>>>
>>> -o xdvi-bin.exe main.o libxdvi.a
>>> /home/kbrown/src/cygtexlive/texlive/texlive-20160520-2.i686/build/texk/kpathsea/libkpathsea.la
>>>
>>> -lfreetype -Xlinker --allow-multiple-definition -lXaw -lXmu -lXt
>>> -lSM -lICE -lXi -lXext -lXpm -lX11
>>> libtool: error: cannot find the library '/usr/lib/libxcb.la' or
>>> unhandled argument '/usr/lib/libxcb.la'
>>>
>>> (/usr/lib/libxcb.la was removed from the x86 distro in the recent
>>> update of libxcb-devel.)
>>
>> I think I found the problem, but I don't have access to my build machine
>> right now to test it: Several /usr/lib/*.la files include the
>> non-existent /usr/lib/libxcb.la in their dependency_libs. In
>> particular, this is true of /usr/lib/libXext.la. So I'm guessing that
>> the presence of -lXext in the libtool command line is causing libtool to
>> look for /usr/lib/libxcb.la.
>>
>> Can someone confirm this guess? If I'm right, then it seems that
>> /usr/lib/libxcb.la should be restored until all packages that depend on
>> it can be rebuilt.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>
> my usual solution it to remove the /usr/lib/*.la that is calling the
> /usr/lib/libxcb.la.
> This is also what Yaakov proposed as general solution.
Removing /usr/lib/libXext.la solved the problem. Thanks for your help.
Ken
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-20 23:09 Ken Brown
2016-08-21 12:28 ` Ken Brown
2016-08-21 18:15 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-08-21 22:18 ` Ken Brown [this message]
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