On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The ideal of course would be to convince libtool upstream that trying >> to change the entire world to use libtool makes a lot less sense than >> having those few modules that interact with shared libraries have >> platform-specific code. > > The libtool developers understand that the .la files aren't needed in > normal operation. The reason that they insist on keeping them is so > that `make uninstall' works since the .la files are the only place > that store information about the actual libraries (.so + links vs. .a, > etc.). Right - we have a "make uninstall", it's called "rpm -e". -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
