no more *.la files in libgc-dev

[David Pirotte <david@altosw.be>]

Hello,

Thinking it was a libgc-dev debian package problem I posted a mail ... and got the
following 2 answers [below].

Once I manually removed all *.la files from my /usr/local/lib tree, I could further
try to compile guile-gnome-platform against gcc-4.6. 

As the list of *.la files I removed does not only includes guile-gnome stuff but
also libguile, cairo and g-wrap, I am posting here instead of guile-gtk.

Cheers,
David

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From: Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org>
To: David Pirotte <david@altosw.be>
Cc: 631663@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#631663: libgc-dev: missing .la files
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:07:39 +0200
Organization: Privat
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Hi!

David Pirotte <david@altosw.be> writes:
> libtool: link: gcc -shared -fPIC -DPIC
> .libs/libgw_guile_gnome_atk_la-guile-gnome-gw-atk.o -Wl,-rpath
> -Wl,/usr/local/src/guile-gnome/git-clone/glib/gnome/gobject/.libs
> /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so
> /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so -lrt /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so
> -L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libgwrap-guile-runtime.so
> /usr/local/lib/libgwrap-core-runtime.so /usr/local/lib/libguile-2.0.so
> -lgc -lffi
> ../../../glib/gnome/gobject/.libs/libguile-gnome-gobject-2.so -pthread
> -pthread -pthread -O2 -pthread -pthread -Wl,-soname
> -Wl,libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so.0 -o .libs/libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so.0.0.0
> libtool: link: (cd ".libs" && rm -f "libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so.0" && ln
> -s "libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so.0.0.0" "libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so.0")
> libtool: link: (cd ".libs" && rm -f "libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so" && ln
> -s "libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so.0.0.0" "libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so")
> /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libgc.la: No such file or directory
> libtool: link: /usr/lib/libgc.la' is not a valid libtool archive
> make[5]: *** [libgw-guile-gnome-atk.la] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory
> /usr/local/src/guile-gnome/git-clone/atk/gnome/gw'
> make[4]: *** [all] Error 2  

What exactly needs to be done to see this failure? Just building
guile-gnome-platform here seems to succeed. Note also that .la files are
removed on purpose [0] wherever possible

[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00783.html

Regards

    Christoph

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A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
Q. Why is top posting bad?


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From: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
To: David Pirotte <david@altosw.be>, 631663@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#631663: libgc-dev: missing .la files
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:57:49 +0200
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 17:53:36 -0300, David Pirotte wrote:

> Package: libgc-dev
> Version: 1:7.1-8
> Severity: important
> 
> This is also true for the libgc-dev amd64 [same version] package.
> 
> Important: yes, very, but not urgent: it provides me [and the
> community off course] to conmpile guile-gnome-platform:
> 
> libtool: link: gcc -shared  -fPIC
> -DPIC .libs/libgw_guile_gnome_atk_la-guile-gnome-gw-atk.o   -Wl,-rpath
> -Wl,/usr/local/src/guile-gnome/git-clone/glib/gnome/gobject/.libs /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so
> -lrt /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so
> -L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libgwrap-guile-runtime.so /usr/local/lib/libgwrap-core-runtime.so /usr/local/lib/libguile-2.0.so
> -lgc -lffi ../../../glib/gnome/gobject/.libs/libguile-gnome-gobject-2.so -pthread
> -pthread -pthread -O2 -pthread   -pthread -Wl,-soname
> -Wl,libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so.0 -o .libs/libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so.0.0.0 libtool:
> link: (cd ".libs" && rm -f "libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so.0" && ln -s
> "libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so.0.0.0" "libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so.0") libtool: link: (cd
> ".libs" && rm -f "libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so" && ln -s
> "libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so.0.0.0" "libgw-guile-gnome-atk.so") /bin/sed: can't
> read /usr/lib/libgc.la: No such file or directory libtool:
> link: /usr/lib/libgc.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[5]: ***
> [libgw-guile-gnome-atk.la] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving
> directory /usr/local/src/guile-gnome/git-clone/atk/gnome/gw' make[4]: *** [all]
> Error 2 
You need to find what file on your system references /usr/lib/libgc.la,
and remove it.  Probably something in /usr/local/lib/*.la, looking at
your log.

I don't think this is a bug.

Cheers,
Julien


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;;; the list of .la files I removed
;;; note that the presence of *guile-gnome*.la is because I did succeed
;;; compiling/installing guile-gnome-platform against gcc-4.5 [realy in may] and did
;;; not want to run make uninstall [on purpose] before succeeding against gcc-4.6 ...
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david@idefix:/usr/local/lib/tmp.la 18 $ ls
libguile-2.0.la*              libgw-guile-gnome-canvas.la*
libgw-guile-gnome-gobject.la*     libgw-guile-gnome-pango.la*
libguile-cairo.la*            libgw-guile-gnome-corba.la*
libgw-guile-gnome-gtk.la*         libgw-guile-gw-glib.la*
libguile-gnome-corba-2.la*    libgw-guile-gnome-gconf.la*
libgw-guile-gnome-libglade.la*    libgw-guile-standard.la*
libguile-gnome-gobject-2.la*  libgw-guile-gnome-gdk.la*
libgw-guile-gnome-libgnome.la*    libgwrap-core-runtime.la*
libgw-guile-gnome-atk.la*     libgw-guile-gnome-glib.la*
libgw-guile-gnome-libgnomeui.la*  libgwrap-guile-runtime.la*
libgw-guile-gnome-cairo.la*   libgw-guile-gnome-gnome-vfs.la*
libgw-guile-gnome-pangocairo.la*