walt wrote:
> Art Lemasters wrote:
> 
>>   In a 28FEB (CVS) pkgsrc, current, i386, I tried to make
>> update (after make clean-update and make clean CLEANDEPENDS=YES)
>> gnome-vfs2.
>>
>>   After seeing the following (errors below), I tried
>> locate libpthread.la and it returned nothing...
> 
> 
> 
> 'libpthread.la' is created by libtool when installing the
> 'pth' package.  You probably had the 'pth' package installed
> at one time, as I did, and later deleted it -- it really isn't
> needed because -CURRENT already includes libpthread.
> 
> Meanwhile, you have other packages which were built while
> the 'pth' package was installed, and therefore expect to
> find libpthread.la still on your machine.  Simple, right?
> 
> The way to test my hypothesis is this:
> find /usr/pkg -name *.la | xargs grep libpthread.la
> 
> If this search turns up any .la files which reference
> libpthread.la the solution is to recompile those packages.
> 
> All this is assuming you no longer have the 'pth' package
> installed.  If you still have 'pth' I would suggest you
> pkg_delete it and just count on recompiling lots and lots
> of packages which depend on it.  That's what I did -- it
> was a pain in the backside but I no longer have the problem.

   Thanks, Walt!  The search did show GConf, ORBit and bonobo
files.  I wiped pth and remade libtool-base.  GConf2, ORBit2,
libbonobo and gnome-vfs2 were re-made for bluefish.  bluefish
works, and this will go to the "Fixes" file to recall for others.


Art