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