On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 08:25:09AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/LibtoolArchives > > Motivation > (AFAICT) The intent of the original guideline was to avoid problematic > libtool archives1, those used in linking, not necessarily those used for > loadable modules, plugins, etc... > > While .la files outside of $LD_LIBRARY_PATH SHOULD be ok to omit, > (AFAIK) keeping them causes no harm either, so shouldn't be a MUST to > remove. Problem is, there are quite a few software packages that require > .la files for proper function (including some kde bits, though this is > being worked on). > > > Comments? > > -- Rex > I think we should fix that upstream, we know the authors are willing to fix it, but they asked for some use case to demonstrate the problem. The biggest problem *.la inclusing/exclusion have cost are endless recurring discussions on working around the current state of affairs (deleting all, keeping all, deleting some, deleting some more, and still being surprised when kde or something else will pick up non-devel *.la functionality etc.). -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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