cppunit build fails: /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.la

[macports@…]

Hello,

I am unable to build cppunit (a dependency for ffmpeg) on my system. I get an error:

grep: /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.la: No such file or directory
sed: /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.la' is not a valid libtool archive

I understand that this is related to the absence of *.la files on Snow Leopard, but I have not been able to find any workarounds or fixes to this problem. I have attempted uninstalling / cleaning / selfupdate / reinstalling, but no luck. I have also attempted to reinstall macports wholly (mv /opt/local /opt/local-2010.05.31, then re-installing from macports.org) but also had no luck.

This appears to be a general issue affecting macports on Snow Leopard. I also saw similar errors trying to compile the macports version of libtool, for example.

Are there any workaround for this problem?

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Cc Me!

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Cc Me!

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Please remember to cc the maintainer, and note that you do not need to be in cc when you are the reporter.

[macports@…]

uninstalled ports, reinstalled Snow Leopard, reinstalled XCode, patched OS up, and reinstalled Macports from svn. still receiving error, log attached.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

We also have the report from you about this problem with gettext: #25159

I don't know why this is happening for you. I cannot reproduce the issue. I do not have the file /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.la either; not sure why this file's absence is being considered a problem on your system.

[macports@…]

Found fix, most conversation is on the gettext ticket. Posting fix data:

The difference was the presence of .la archives in /usr/lib confusing libtool. These were created with a modified version of fix-x11-lib.sh pulled from ​http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.devel/17289. I ran this sometime ago trying to get fink to work, and as we can tell it didn't work out. Removing the .la archives has caused gettext to build properly.