Packaging policy for libtool .la files
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 19:38:03 UTC 2009
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:52:11 -0800, Toshio wrote:
> * Is it the packagers job to fix things like this? It's certainly a
> Fedora-specific packaging policy to remove *.la files, so this is not
> something that we can force on upstream.
Libtool archives in private plugin/modules directories are harmless
as they are located outside build-time linker's search path. Such
directories must never be added to the search path via -L.
When these files are built, you just need to make sure that no
inter-library dependencies on external .la files are inserted, which
may break later when those files are removed.
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