-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 16:07 +0100, Dan Horák wrote: >> Manuel Wolfshant píše v So 03. 01. 2009 v 16:39 +0200: >>> Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>> >>>> Some time ago there was a long thread regarding libtool files which >>>> started with why dia has .la files. >>>> >>>> I was unable to respond to that thread since i was travelling at that >>>> time. In the mean time it seems that someone removed the .la files from >>>> dia according to the fedora packaging policy. >>>> >>>> However now dia crashes with an error message, i have done some >>>> preliminary investigation ( Ref BZ 475992 ) and it seems that the >>>> source is looking at the la files to determine the libs. >>>> >>>> I am going to talk to upstream to see if this behaviour can be changed. >>>> However my question is in case they dis-agree what are the options do we >>>> have? >>>> >>>> Do we bring the .la files back so that dia works ? >>> tough choice... what should we select, a working application with .la >>> files included, or a nicely-packaged-but-crashing app ? >>> >> IMHO a working application is always preferred :-) But the plugin >> loading mechanism can be checked why it requires the *.la files. >> > > There is no deep reason why dias plugin support looks for .la files. It > would be a 3 line patch to make it look for .so instead. > Matthias, I saw your comment on the bugzilla, I am going to apply that patch and see if that works, Thanks a lot. - -- Regards, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, RHCE, CCNA (IRC: huzaifas) GnuPG Fingerprint: 3A0F DAFB 9279 02ED 273B FFE9 CC70 DCF2 DA5B DAE5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklfjvMACgkQzHDc8tpb2uX4+QCfbAhy5uzT1E03UxuwE+FL+oHB xPkAoIhlX6rZVP3MaDxPBJ+SFdDcTo0Z =eIRJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
