I am having a problem compiling pango. It fails with

grep: /usr/local/lib/libxcb-xlib.la: No such file or directly

No surprise there because libxcb-xlib.la is in /usr/lib. I can fool the configure into working by linking the library into /usr/local/lib but want to fix the root problem.

I have tried re-installing libxcb-1.0 to make sure I used prefix=/usr not /usr/local but that made no difference.

What I don't know is how my system thinks the library is in /usr/local/lib not /usr/lib. Or at least Pangos configure thinks that but why? Where would this information be stored?

Paul Clark

I'll give you a hint, google LDCONFIG

do you have the -dev package for that lib installed??


never mind..i read your post wrong..

In my /etc/ld.so.conf I have

---------------
/usr/local/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
---------------

I have run /sbin/ldconfig

I also tried

/sbin/ldconfig -v | grep libxcb-xlib

and the response was

/sbin/ldconfig: Path `/usr/lib' given more than once
libxcb-xlib.so.0 -> libxcb-xlib.so.0.0.0

So now I don't know why it says the path is given more than once when it isn't given at all and the libxcb-xlib.la does not show up yet libxcb-xlib.so.0.0.0 that is in /usr/lib does?

Also I have libxcb-xlib.so and libxcb-xlib.a sitting in there but not showing up? Why would the Path be given more than once as that sounds wrong and may be my problem?

Paul

The 'pango' configure script will look in
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xcb.pc or one or more of
the other 21 ? xcb**.pc scripts and may be
also in libxcb-xlib.la or libxcb****.la
( also text files ).

" .pc files " should all say prefix=/usr/,
" .la files : libdir='/usr//lib'.

If you have an error in one of those 44 files,
it may cause the error, you have with the path.

And take care, that no xcb is in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/

Suggest : reinstall the libxcb,
may be with another version.

( It can also be a bug in pango.)
....