Bug#350066: Tellico FTBS, libkcal.la references libXft.la which does not exist anymore
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:34:31PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:14:14AM +0000, Regis Boudin wrote:
> > Package: kdepim
> > Version: 3.5.0-5
> > Severity: grave
>
> > Trying to build a snapshot of tellico, it FTBS because of a
> > missing /usr/lib/libXft.la file. I tried to rebuild the latest version
> > of tellico with pbuilder, which also failed with the same error.
>
> > All the .la files from the kdepim dev packages
> > reference /usr/lib/libXft.la, if the build was done with libxft-dev <<
> > 2.1.8. However, the file was removed last week with xft 2.1.8.2-1,
> > making the packages linking against any of the kdepim libs FTBFS, hence
> > the grave severity.
> > i386 if affected, but some arches are not, such as i64.
>
> > I tried rebuilding kdepim and installing the generated packages, and I
> > could successfully build tellico.
> >
> > I am not sure if the solution is to rebuild kdepim with the new xft, or
> > include libXft.la back, so I CC the xft maintainer, but something needs
> > to be done.
>
> Given that xft also supports pkg-config, AFAICT there's no specific reason
> that libxft-dev should need to include libXft.la anymore. The important
> thing is to know whether or not it's coming back, or whether we should
> requeue kdepim for rebuilding.
If it's as simple as a rebuild, then just requeue kdepim for rebuilding.
>From what I understand, the .pc files are superior to .la files, although
if I'm wrong someone should feel free to correct me.
- David Nusinow
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