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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: libgnutls-devel depends on missnig libtasn1.la file
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 19:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3152d88a-50cd-d588-6a6a-f311df5913fe@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161210023817.imnuvtfumnsvxrme@7c616c24653cac4f1c247e3ee013d12b>

On 12/9/2016 9:38 PM, Peter Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am attempting to build softare (GNU libmicrohttpd) with cygport on x86, but am
> getting errors when it links against libgnutls:
>
> /usr/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libtasn1.la: No such file or directory
> libtool:   error: '/usr/lib/libtasn1.la' is not a valid libtool archive
>
> Likely cause:
>
> Cygwin gnutls-devel 3.2.21-1 installs /usr/lib/libgnutls.la and this file references libtasn1.la
>
> However /usr/lib/libtasn1.la has been removed as of libtans1-devel 0.49-1.
> See announce message here: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-08/msg00084.html .
>
> Could the maintainers of libgnutls-devel and libtasn1 please resolve this!

The *.la files are gradually being phased out.  /usr/lib/libgnutls.la 
will probably be gone the next time libgnutls-devel is updated.  For 
now, you should be able to solve the problem by simply deleting it (or 
moving it out of the way).

Ken

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2016-12-10  2:38 Peter Ross
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