On Oct 12, 2006, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Revisting the root of evil. What exactly is wrong with not removing > all *.la files? Removing all .la files is fine as long as (i) static libraries are not in use at all, or (ii.a) dependent libraries of static libraries are explicitly listed along with the static libraries in link commands using libtool and (ii.b) emulation of dlopening of static libraries is not required. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Secretary for FSF Latin America http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging