[Digikam-users] Digikam from svn fails to compile because of absence of libXrender.la

[Fabrice Flore-Thebault]

Hello,

Well, don't know where is the  best to tell about it :

I have no succes in my tentative to compile Digikam from svn on debian/ppc 
(unstable+experimental).

As I understand it, the issue is related to libxrender and libtool :

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Making all in jpegutils
make[4]: entrant dans le 
répertoire « /srv/fab/svn-src/graphics/digikam/libs/jpegutils »
/bin/sh ../../../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link 
g++  -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -O2 -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION    -o 
libjpegutils.la  -L/usr/share/qt3/lib -L/usr/lib    -R /usr/lib -R /usr/lib -R /usr/share/qt3/lib -R /usr/lib 
jpegmetadata.lo exifrotate.lo transupp.lo -ljpeg -lkexif 
grep: /usr/lib/libXrender.la: No such file or directory
/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libXrender.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libXrender.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make[4]: *** [libjpegutils.la] Erreur 1
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The fact is that libxrender-dev (0.9.0.2-2) doesn't provide 
any 'libXrender.la' file anymore :

/usr/share/doc/libxrender-dev/changelog.Debian.gz : 
  * In accordance with all other X libraries, stop shipping Libtool .la file.

If the problem is known, is there a known solution ?

What is possible to do to go ahead without this .la file ?
 
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Fabrice Flore-Thébault