[Slackbuilds-users] transmission

[Alan Ianson]

On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 08:41:05 +0200
Matteo Bernardini <matteo.bernardini at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2017-07-09 8:34 GMT+02:00 Ananda Murthy R S <rsamurti at gmail.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Create /usr/lib64/la-files-backup directory.
> >
> > Move all *.la files from /usr/lib64 to the directory created above.
> >
> > After this, recompile. It should work.
> >
> > Anand
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Alan Ianson <alanians at telus.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 21:51:29 -0700
> >> King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 07/08/2017 09:06 PM, Alan Ianson wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > Hello All,
> >> > >
> >> > > I am trying to build transmission on current (not supported, but I try
> >> > > anyway!) and I am getting this error.
> >> > >
> >> > > libtool:   error: cannot find the library '/usr/lib64/libidn2.la' or
> >> > > unhandled argument '/usr/lib64/libidn2.la'
> >> > >
> >> > > I am also getting this error when building boinc (not on SBo) so any
> >> > > help may get me going there too.
> >> >
> >> > libidn2 is a replacement for libidn and was just added to current today.
> >> >  Did you update?
> >>
> >> I did update this morning and I do have /usr/lib64/libidn2.so.0.3.1 but
> >> there is no /usr/lib64/libidn2.la. Maybe there needs to be one, I'm not
> >> sure.
> 
> please ignore Ananda's advice (sorry Ananda) or you will likely break
> your system.
> 
> install instead the libidn2 package that has been added in current:
> you have the *.so file because it's included in the upgrade of
> aaa_elflibs but you are missing the rest of the stuff (including the
> *.la file).
> 
> if you are tracking current you have to do (mandatory at each
> upgrade), assuming you are using slackpkg to update:
> 
> - read carefully the ChangeLog.txt file (this also if you are on stable);
> 
> - execute
>   slackpkg update
>   slackpkg install-new
>   slackpkg upgrade-all

I never did the install-new step when I upgraded this morning. I just did it and there is a new libidn2-2.0.2 package that includes /usr/lib64/libidn2.la. Transmission and boinc build and install as expected now. Thanks for the pointer. :)