Whither /usr/lib64/libfam.la?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 08:34:02AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
>> I just tried to build kyum-0.7.1, and got a link error, /usr/lib64/libfam.la
>> not found.  I see on FC3 this file exists:
>>
>> rpm -q -f /usr/lib64/libfam.la
>> gamin-devel-0.0.25-1.FC3
>>
>> It's missing from FC4 version:
>> rpm -q gamin-devel
>> gamin-devel-0.1.0-1
>>
>> I think this is a big problem, because it seems other kde libs reference it.
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159144
>
> Those kde libraries should be rebuilt to not reference the .la, since as
> you discovered those reference are way too fragile (at least that's my
> understanding of the issue but I'm not a libtool specialist.)

>From what I've seen, ALL KDE packages require those .la files to be 
present, and not in the -devel package but in the main package. Drop the 
.la files and it wont even run. Don't ask me why.. :)

 	- Panu -