Re: [Adonthell-general] something about 'whitespace following trailing backslash' while doing ./autogen.sh in adonthell-tools and then can't make.

[Chris Frey]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 01:10:55AM +0530, shirish ??????????????? wrote:
> >> libtool: link: ar cru .libs/_gtk.a ??_gtk_la-gfx_gtk.o
> >> _gtk_la-screen_gtk.o _gtk_la-surface_gtk.o
> >> libtool: link: ranlib .libs/_gtk.a
> >> /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libxml2.la: No such file or directory
> >> libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libxml2.la' is not a valid libtool archive
> >
> > I think I faced the same problem after upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04, but
> > can't remember now what I did to resolve it. Will have to check after
> > my vacation. Might be caused by old build artifacts lying around, so
> > deleting the old build directory and creating it fresh might help.
> 
> I *always* make a new build directory. I do use ccache however but it
> should not affect no ?

ccache shouldn't affect this.

My guess is that somewhere on your system, you have a pkg-config file
that refers to /usr/lib/libxml2.la, and it does not exist anymore.

Maybe do:

        grep libxml2.la /usr/lib/pkgconfig/*.pc

- Chris