From kde-devel  Sat Sep 03 08:25:57 2005
From: Bongani Hlope <bhlope () mweb ! co ! za>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 08:25:57 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: problems finding libattr.la when building kdebase
Message-Id: <200509031025.57927.bhlope () mweb ! co ! za>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=112573591508535

On Saturday 03 September 2005 08:50 am, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 01:49:40AM +0100, Zé wrote:
> > grep: /lib/libattr.la: No such file or directory
> > /bin/sed: unable to read  /lib/libattr.la: No such file or directory
> > libtool: link: `/lib/libattr.la' is not a valid libtool archive
> > Error creating ./kate/utils/libkateutils.la. Exit status 1.
>
> i found out that libacl.la is referencing a libattr.la - which is not
> present in any -dev package. this seems to be consistent across several
> distros (debian sid here), so i suppose it is an upstream messup with
> libtool.
> to work around, i deleted the libacl.la file and added a symlink
> /lib/libattr.so -> /lib/libattr.so.1.

Mandriva 2005 include libattr.la in lib64attr1-devel, and the other thing 
is... kdelib correctly detects the correct /usr/lib64/libattr.la. kdelib has 
ac_cv_header_attr_libattr_h in its configure script and kdebase does not.
 
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