Sometimes when you compile a package it fails and complains it can’t find an *.la file for some library that is installed. Recently I had it when compiling dev-libs/gobject-introspection which complained about missing libpng14.la. The solution for this is to run:
sudo lafilefixer --justfixit
It won’t create the .la file, but it will fix the libtool references so nothing points to it so packages will compile fine.
Thank you for the tip. I couldn’t figure out what to do with this little thingy…
Hi,
I am using ubuntu 11.10, where can i get the lafileixer from? I couldn’t get it from sudo apt-get install
Thanks
I don’t think it will be useful for you in Ubuntu, as it solves problems caused by source distribution, while in Ubuntu the packages are binary.
Anyway, you can download it from here:
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-util/lafilefixer/files/lafilefixer-0.5