libtool: error: cannot find the library '/usr/lib/libxcb.la'...

[Marco Atzeri]

On 21/08/2016 06:01, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 8/20/2016 5:54 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I'm trying to rebuild texlive, and the build on x86 is failing as
>> follows:
>>
>> make[2]: Entering directory
>> '/home/kbrown/src/cygtexlive/texlive/texlive-20160520-2.i686/build/texk/xdvik'
>>
>> /bin/sh ./libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type
>> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-unknown-pragmas -ggdb -O2 -pipe
>> -Wimplicit-function-declaration
>> -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/kbrown/src/cygtexlive/texlive/texlive-20160520-2.i686/build=/usr/src/debug/texlive-20160520-2
>> -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/kbrown/src/cygtexlive/texlive/texlive-20160520-2.i686/src/texlive-20160520-source=/usr/src/debug/texlive-20160520-2
>> -o xdvi-bin.exe main.o libxdvi.a
>> /home/kbrown/src/cygtexlive/texlive/texlive-20160520-2.i686/build/texk/kpathsea/libkpathsea.la
>> -lfreetype  -Xlinker --allow-multiple-definition  -lXaw -lXmu -lXt
>> -lSM -lICE -lXi -lXext -lXpm -lX11
>> libtool:   error: cannot find the library '/usr/lib/libxcb.la' or
>> unhandled argument '/usr/lib/libxcb.la'
>>
>> (/usr/lib/libxcb.la was removed from the x86 distro in the recent
>> update of libxcb-devel.)
>
> I think I found the problem, but I don't have access to my build machine
> right now to test it: Several /usr/lib/*.la files include the
> non-existent /usr/lib/libxcb.la in their dependency_libs.  In
> particular, this is true of /usr/lib/libXext.la.  So I'm guessing that
> the presence of -lXext in the libtool command line is causing libtool to
> look for /usr/lib/libxcb.la.
>
> Can someone confirm this guess?  If I'm right, then it seems that
> /usr/lib/libxcb.la should be restored until all packages that depend on
> it can be rebuilt.
>
> Ken
>

my usual solution it to remove the /usr/lib/*.la that is calling the
/usr/lib/libxcb.la.
This is also what Yaakov proposed as general solution.

On the 64 bit we have no  /usr/lib/*.la for the same reason.

Regards
Marco

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