On 10/16/2009 04:37 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:20:30 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> I thought I'd have a play with swami, but the emerge fails with >> "/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libogg.la: No such file or directory", >> and indeed there is none such. > > The elog message from the last libogg install explains this. Run > lafilefixer --justfixit.
There is no manpage for lafilefixer, but the --help flag prints: --justfixit Choose some reasonable dirs, such as /usr/lib*, etc. , find all .la files and fix them to not use .la files for linking I can't make sense out of that -- one of the major uses of libtool (I thought) is for linking. Can anyone 'splain that to me? Thanks.