On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:26:45AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:33:01AM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > > > Does anyone happen to know why .la files hardcode the paths to .la > > files that they depend on? > > Anal-retentiveness wrt using the exact same library originaly used. > > > This is about to bite Debian hard with some of the XFree86 libraries > > moving to /usr/lib. > > Can you be more specific? -rw-r--r-- 22k 2003-10-07 01:49 libxrender1_0.8.3-1_i386.deb The new version of libXrender moves from /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/lib which has already started to cause build failures... :\ I am not certain if Branden plans to move any others to /usr/lib, but if he does hopefully he will do it very soon. Chris
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