On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 11:38:00PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi, > > I've read on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries > > "Libtool archives, foo.la files, should not be included. Packages > using libtool will install these by default even if you configure with > --disable-static, so they may need to be removed before packaging. Due > to bugs in older versions of libtool or bugs in programs that use it, > there are times when it is not always possible to remove *.la files > without modifying the program. In most cases it is fairly easy to work > with upstream to fix these issues. Note that if you are updating a > library in a stable release (not devel) and the package already > contains *.la files, removing the *.la files should be treated as an > API/ABI change -- ie: Removing them changes the interface that the > library gives to the rest of the world and should not be undertaken > lightly." > > Does that mean that we should not use libtool? What if I'd want to > build a shared library? > Using libtool is perfectly fine. It's just that when packaging the results of building you want to remove the *.la files. -Toshio
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