On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:40:18AM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote:
> 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.
Actually, it's already started to cause run-time failures in the
case of dynamically loaded plugins that use the xrender symbols. This
just recently broke the licq qt plugin, and while I suspect a simple
recompile will make the problem go away, it would have been nice if
I'd had some warning.
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