On 17/06/12 19:50, SciFi wrote:
Hi,
I'm having severe trouble trying to (re)build my X11 apps. I'm still using 10.6.8 and do my own builds by hand in 32-bit mode.
The *.la files are totally gone in the XQuartx-2.7.2.pkg -- and something wiped 'em out in my local trees (the 'proper' X11/lib subdir on my local disk drive).
I peeked into the 2.7.2 pkg with Pacifist directly -- the only files in its /opt/X11/lib subdir are those named *.dylib -- nothing else is in there! (please see attached PNG snapshot)
I swear they were there months earlier -- I'm sure I'd compiled things with no problem back then!
You are about 4 years late to this battle. The *.la files were removed from Xquartz in version 2.3.0-rc5 or something, in 2008. They never existed on MacOSX 10.6. At the time there was some fight about the best way to handle this. I had even a script that automatically reconstituted suitable *.la files from the dylibs in /usr/X11. Finally everyone got used to their absence, and for example Fink found that you can avoid all problems if you purge your own *.la files by emptying the dependency_libs list.
There's no way I can rebuild absolutely everything to eliminate all ~.la files for all projects I am using.
Run something like perl -pi -e "s/^(dependency_libs)=.*/\1='"''"'/" on them. -- Martin