I'm sending this to two lists to see who can offer some insight, as I tried and failed earlier to get pacman to correctly build with a newer version of libarchive. I think it may deal with having la files in the package, but I am not sure so I'll outline what I've tried and know so far. Libarchive website: http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/ Current version: 2.2.3 Current Arch Linux version: 1.3.1-2 As you can see, we are a ways behind. I up-ed the PKGBUILD for libarchive, rebuilt it without problems (as far as I can tell), and then pacman -U <new libarchive> and tried to compile pacman. The ldd output showed that it correctly linked against the new libarchive.so.2, but it had somehow also linked against libarchive.so.1. I tried rebuilding libarchive using options=(!libtool), but that didn't seem to fix anything- it actually just spit some more errors saying libarchive was missing la files and such. OK, long explanation, but it comes down to this: 1. How can we get pacman to compile with libarchive without needing the la files? libdownload seems to work fine without them, etc. 2. Where is this mysterious link to libarchive.so.1 coming from when it isn't even present on my system anymore? This applies to both the most recent CVS release and our GIT tree at projects.al.org. -Dan