Re: rc9 Build failure on Hardy: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libneon.la'

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> writes:

>> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libneon.la' or
>> unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libneon.la'
>>
>> There doesn't appear to be any Hardy package with that file (at
>> least, "apt-file search /usr/lib/libneon.la" yielded no hits).
>> What might I be doing wrong?

    Mark> There is a bug filed with Ubuntu somewhere for this. Eric
    Mark> Gillespie pointed me to it when I had similar problems. I
    Mark> wound up just building Neon myself and pointing to that.

Peter Samuelson set me straight -- I needed to do this in
.../build/ac-macros:

Index: neon.m4
===================================================================
--- neon.m4 (revision 31593)
+++ neon.m4 (working copy)
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
            test "$svn_allowed_neon" = "any"; then
             svn_allowed_neon_on_system="yes"
             SVN_NEON_INCLUDES=[`$neon_config --cflags | sed -e 's/-D[^ ]*//g'`]
- NEON_LIBS=`$neon_config --la-file`
+ NEON_LIBS=`pkg-config --libs neon`
             CFLAGS=["$CFLAGS `$neon_config --cflags | sed -e 's/-I[^ ]*//g'`"]
             svn_lib_neon="yes"
             break

It worked fine.

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