On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:28:43 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > It's been a while since I looked at this but isn't libltdl a shared > library? So in Fedora we should be running against the newer version of > libltdl that does work with missing libtool archives? Unless an old or customised copy of libltdl is used -- which has been the case several times before. One of the more prominent examples was KDE, albeit a few years ago. Wow, lots of hits at Google when searching for such issues related to Fedora. > > The other case where removing libtool archives causes breakage is > > if there are inter-library dependencies in the .la files. Then you > > need to remove all .la files. > > > True. That doesn't conflict with removing .la files everywhere, though. Except that there has been resistance from some packagers, as they refuse[d] to remove libtool archives. Perhaps this has changed meanwhile. ;) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
