Re: Compilation problem with libexpat.

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:25:59AM -0300, John Coppens wrote:
> Hello people.
> 
> I have my libexpat in /usr/X11/lib, which is correctly included in all
> paths, but for some reason, compiling libgnomeprint-2.8.2, insists that
> it be in /usr/bin, and I have the following error:
> 
> ranlib .libs/libgnomeprint-lpr.a
> creating libgnomeprint-lpr.la
> /usr/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libexpat.la: No such file or directory
> libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libexpat.la' is not a valid libtool archive
> make[3]: *** [libgnomeprint-lpr.la] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gnome2/libgnomeprint-2.8.2/
> libgnomeprint/transports' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gnome2/libgnomeprint-2.8.2/
> libgnomeprint' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gnome2/libgnomeprint-2.8.2'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> configure doesn't complain, and I cannot find why libtool insists on
> looking for it there.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?

You probably have a package that installed a .la file that
references it there.  It shouldn't do that.