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  • 1.  expat-devel-2.2.9-2.ppc missing libexpat.la

    Posted Wed July 14, 2021 05:08 AM
    Hello,
    The package expat-devel-2.2.9-2.ppc is missing libexpat.la.
    The .la is needed if you build certain other open source tools.
    The same is true for libpng-devel-1.6.27-3.ppc.

    Is there a specific reason for that?

    Other packages do contain the necessary .la files:

    libfl.la libfreetype.la libgdbm.la libgmpxx.la libffi.la libfontconfig.la libgd.la libgmp.la liblzma.la


    Bye
      Rainer Tammer

    Note.: .la = libtool library file

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  • 2.  RE: expat-devel-2.2.9-2.ppc missing libexpat.la

    Posted Thu July 15, 2021 07:19 AM
    new aixtoolbox packages do not provide *.la files, this started last year or so, they are not needed anyway. just remove all *.la files from /opt/freeware/lib and /opt/freeware/lib64.

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  • 3.  RE: expat-devel-2.2.9-2.ppc missing libexpat.la

    Posted Thu July 15, 2021 08:01 AM
    Hello,
    The problem is, that they _are_ needed by some older open source packages.
    Otherwise the build system does not work.

    Bye
    ?? Rainer Tammer



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  • 4.  RE: expat-devel-2.2.9-2.ppc missing libexpat.la

    Posted Thu July 15, 2021 08:11 AM
    hm...ok, as said the situation is that *.la are not provided in new packages, maybe you need to build a separated environment with old packages for your ancient software.

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  • 5.  RE: expat-devel-2.2.9-2.ppc missing libexpat.la

    Posted Thu July 15, 2021 08:48 AM
    Hello,
    The .la files are (still9 used by libtool (even 2.4.6).

    Many open source packages (which are often not available in the AIX Toolbox or which are not available in a 64 and a 32 bit version)
    depend on these files during configuration/build. It is unnecessary work to fix these problems. Many current AIX Toolbox packages do still provide the .la files.

    So why were the libtool library files removed from the AIX Toolbox packages?
    I did not find a documented reason for that.

    Bye
      Rainer

    P.S.: I did some wonk on libtool for AIX (see ChangeLog in libtool-2.4.6).

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  • 6.  RE: expat-devel-2.2.9-2.ppc missing libexpat.la

    Posted Thu July 15, 2021 10:29 AM

    AIX Toolbox packages were shipping the .la files initially. Sometime back , we decided not to ship the .la files in align with other distros. So the packages which are recently updated ( last 2 years) probably won't be having the .la files but the other packages will still be having .la files . I understand this breaks some package builds because some .la files will be still referring other .la files which are no longer shipped. 
    In that case , as mentioned by @C- -T one has to clean all the .la files from /opt/freeware/lib & /opt/freeware/lib64. 
    As we update each packages , eventually AIX Toolbox will be free of these .la files. But right now , it is a problem and we can't really update all the packages because of this single problem because of the huge effort involved.

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