Missing /usr/lib/libcurl.la in libcurl-devel-7.27.0-1

[marco atzeri]

On 9/15/2012 5:07 PM, Johan De Taeye wrote:
> When compiling my package I get an error message about this missing
> file /usr/lib/libcurl.la: see the detailed error message at the
> bottom.
> When I revert to libcurl-devel-7.24.0-3, the file is included in the package.
>
> Unless I am missing, this looks like a packaging error?

it could a upstream decision.
There are several discussion about the not need of *.la files

As the package provide /usr/lib/libcurl.dll.a

it is possible to link anyway, you need just to configure
again the package to detect the change.

>
> Kind regards,
>
> Johan De Taeye
>
>
> Detailed error of my package:
> make[3]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/temp/code/src/utils'
> /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CXX    --mode=link g++  -O3 -s -g -O2
> -Wl,--enable-auto-import -o libutils.la  pythonutils.lo date.lo
> xmlparser.lo  actions.lo library.lo name.lo  -lpthread -lpython2.6
> -L/lib/python2.6/config -lxerces-c
> /usr/bin/grep: /usr/lib/libcurl.la: No such file or directory
> /usr/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libcurl.la: No such file or directory
> libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libcurl.la' is not a valid libtool archive
> Makefile:282: recipe for target `libutils.la' failed
> make[3]: *** [libutils.la] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/temp/code/src/utils'
>
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