Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 00:10 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: >> Hello >> I'm suspecting a leakage in the FE guidelines concerning .la for >> kcontrol plugins. >> >> kcontrol plugins require .la files in order to work properly. >> Example: >> 1) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221733 >> 2) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221015#c7 >> >> I think that these guidelines should be properly documented in that perspective. >> Any comments on this ? > Sorry, I got busy after figuring out just the arts piece of this puzzle. > I have some time right now to go through and fix things to not > require .la files. However, I know nothing of the kde project so I need > a little bit of advice. > > * Do you think this work would be appreciated upstream or accepted > within the Fedora kde packages? upstream? Highly likely not, since kde-3.5.x is pretty much in strict maintenance mode now. > * Can you help me figure out which packages I need to look into and how > to test that the problems are gone once I patch them? > > If so I'll open up a bug in bugzilla.r.c where we can track this. IMO, it's just plain not worth the pain involved. By the time we get a good handle on this in core kde and supporting applications, kde4 will likely be around the corner (which, thankfully, at least wrt, no longer uses libtool). > P.S. For Chitlesh: The Packaging Committee has discussed this: > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/LibtoolArchives but > not yet passed it. The fact that kde apps need .la's is arguably a bug > in upstream's code but I don't know whether we determined there was any > negative's from allowing them when they were a part of a loadable module > rather than a shared library. Afaik, there are no negatives with the updated libtoolarchives proposal, but clearly, I was in the minority, which is why the proposal, as yet, hasn't passed. -- Rex -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
