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[Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>]

glib2 now uses meson build.
One consequnce of this is that .la files are no longer installed.
Some spells which use glib2 may have their own .la files which still 
reference the non-existent g*-2.0.la files.
I detected this by grepping the .la files in /usr/lib.
In most cases this does not matter, as this will be fixed when those 
spells are recast. However, in some cases this invalid is poropogated 
recursively.
In the particular case of cairo, harfbuzz and freetype2 there is cyclic 
dependency loop which makes it impossible to to cast any of these spells 
while the others are still instelled. Dispelling then and then recasting 
them will eventually solve the problem.

An alternative solution might be to run a small script which replaces 
the various g*-2.0.la references in .la files by the equivalent .so 
file.  I might try this on my laptop which has not been updated for 
months.

The problem only affects spells which rely on libtool and glib2. Those 
using pkgconfig, meson and cmake do not look at .la files.

Regards, Treeve