Thanks for the reply,   Michael.     After reading about libtool I thought there was some
change made regarding the .la  libraries in  Fedora.    
Although I did have a problem compiling freehdl it is available in the repos.

I tried compiling it while trying to debug the problem with qucs.    Given that the message
about trying to find    libfreehdl.la  while trying to run a simulation in qucs I guess the problem is with qucs.  
When I compiled qucs from git I had the same problem.  


I see that fedora is not planning to release a spin of eda tools until 2019.

 I did notice while checking  /usr/lib64 that there are a few examples in  fc27        

ls *.la

libguile-gnome-gobject-2.la      libQt5GlxSupport.la
libgwrap-core-runtime.la         libQt5InputSupport.la
libgwrap-guile-runtime.la        libQt5KmsSupport.la
libQt5AccessibilitySupport.la    libQt5LinuxAccessibilitySupport.la
libQt5Bootstrap.la               libQt5OpenGLExtensions.la
libQt5DeviceDiscoverySupport.la  libQt5PlatformCompositorSupport.la
libQt5EglSupport.la              libQt5ServiceSupport.la
libQt5EventDispatcherSupport.la  libQt5ThemeSupport.la
libQt5FbSupport.la               libQt5UiTools.la
libQt5FontDatabaseSupport.la






On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 07 May 2018 14:54:59 -0000, patrick  stanistreet wrote:

> I have been trying out a package  qucs   for electronic circuit design and simulation.
> I can use the software to create a simple design but the simulation fails on a missing
> library.    I tried compiling qucs from source and freehdl is a dependency.   I think the
> problem is with freehdl as I tried and failed to get it to compile. 
>
> qucs simulation fails   on libfreehdl.la           
>
> I think something in gcc or g++ might not be creating this file   during compilation and
> it might be some kind of policy change?

.la is short for "libtool archive". It is a text based description file
and is not created by GCC. In Fedora's packages, these .la files are not
included because they lead to dependency bloat during compilation. When
you tried to compile freehdl yourself, what happened?
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