On Oct 12, 2006, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Seems to really depend on the software generating/using them. Or from > a different viewpoint: if they really were not required (on Linux), > then why are libtool authors installing them (on Linux)? We wouldn't > be having this thread if the simple statement ".la files are not > required" would indeed hold true. They're part of the portable libtool library abstraction. Removing them means you give up some of the portability. On GNU/Linux, with the further constraint of not using static libraries, and only installing libraries in directories searched by both ld and ld.so, you don't lose or miss anything. -- 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
