Bug 37727

Summary:	emerge kdegraphics-3.1.4 fails with libGL.la: is not a valid libtool archive
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Klaus-J. Wolf <yanestra>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Tail of output of the emerge command /usr/lib/libGL.la

Description Klaus-J. Wolf 2004-01-09 11:43:41 UTC

Tested with libtool-1.4.3-r1 and -r3. When trying to emerge kdegraphics-3.1.4,
after a lengthy compilation the process fails with an error message explaining
that "libGL.la" is not a valid libtool archive.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Klaus-J. Wolf 2004-01-10 11:25:33 UTC

Created attachment 23560 [details]
Tail of output of the emerge command

Comment 2 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-11 08:54:17 UTC

On my system I don't have any libGL.la that can be found by libtool. Could you try what happens if you rename /usr/lib/libGL.la to some unrelated name (for backup)

Comment 3 Klaus-J. Wolf 2004-01-11 10:48:18 UTC

Hmmm, I first removed ALL of the .la files (in /usr/lib, there are 232 of them), which brought me a
"libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.la'".

Second, I removed only libGL.la and ... it worked!

I guess the comment inside of that file: "# Please DO NOT delete this file! # It is necessary for linking the library." might be true only to a certain degree. I create an attachment with that file (which was apparently generated by xfree-4.3.0-r3) and hope some one can do some diagnostics on it.

Comment 4 Klaus-J. Wolf 2004-01-11 10:49:00 UTC

Created attachment 23607 [details]
/usr/lib/libGL.la

Comment 5 Klaus-J. Wolf 2004-01-11 11:02:07 UTC

Okay, I see, it came from the nvidia crap. My fault, since I installed it manually. I close this bug. Sorry...