Jeff Pitman wrote:
Would an effort to remove /usr/lib/*.la and see what builds okay, be something important to do for FC5? Or not?
Absolutely. For shared libraries, in most(90%?) cases, the /usr/lib/lib*.la files packaged are superfluous. The are also a sort of cancer, that infects other .la files, causing library dependancy bloat (ie, adding extra Requires to -devel packages that include the infected .la files)
Here's a start of my efforts to help in this area: SDL: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/145974 rpm: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/145978 subversion: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzila/170029 svn is tricky, it has lots of sublibraries expat: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170031 db4: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170032 libjpeg: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170046 neon: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170049 apr: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170050 apr-util: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170051 -- Rex -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
