[Xquartz-dev] Where are all the *.la files please? I am at a huge brick wall. :(

[Martin Costabel]

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