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+ +AFAIK, the .la removal was not discussed, so starting by saying "we +remove them now because last time, we didn't discussed and it broke lots +of thing" is a little bit weird. + + +><i> > Unfortunatly we didn't had enough time to finish this. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > I restarted this task today. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Please tell me if a build fails because of a missing la file. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> +</I>><i> >From building pidgin-libnotify locally: +</I>><i> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.la' or +</I>><i> unhandled argument `/usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.la' +</I>><i> +</I>><i> >From the chroot: +</I>><i> $ cd usr/lib64/ +</I>><i> $ grep libatk-1.0.la * +</I>><i> libindicate-gtk.la:dependency_libs=' /usr/lib64/libindicate.la +</I>><i> /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.la /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.la +</I>><i> /usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.la /usr/lib64/libpangocairo-1.0.la +</I>><i> /usr/lib64/libpangoft2-1.0.la /usr/lib64/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.la +</I>><i> /usr/lib64/libcairo.la /usr/lib64/libpixman-1.la +</I>><i> /usr/lib64/libXrender.la /usr/lib64/libX11.la /usr/lib64/libxcb.la +</I>><i> /usr/lib64/libXau.la /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.la -lpng12 +</I>><i> /usr/lib64/libpango-1.0.la /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.la +</I>><i> /usr/lib64/libfreetype.la /usr/lib64/libxml2.la -lm +</I>><i> /usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-glib.la /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.la -lresolv -lz +</I>><i> /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.la -ldl -ldbus-glib-1 -ldbus-1 +</I>><i> /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.la /usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.la -lpthread +</I>><i> /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.la /usr/lib64/libpcre.la -lrt' +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I don't think just building packages and removing the .la will work, +</I>><i> the inter-dependency is too wide, I count too many .la files up there. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Reading these: +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval">http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval</A> +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00783.html">http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00783.html</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> it looks like Debian are using sed to remove the .la files from +</I>><i> dependency_libs field in .la files, there's a debhelper script, IIUC +</I>><i> it's run before they build a package. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This means it's something that a script run as root in the chroot can +</I>><i> do, but I guess it needs to be fine-tuned. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Meanwhile, just removing .la files will break a lot of builds (note +</I>><i> that we have a lot of packages to rebuild for e.g. new libnotify major +</I>><i> in Cauldron)... :( +</I> +Ie, we need to remove them in the proper order. +One first step would be to find the dependency tree ( should be +basically the same as BuildRequires ) and start bu shaving the leafs. + +-- +Michael Scherer + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="005312.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Removing .la files +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="005337.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Removing .la files +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#5329">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#5329">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#5329">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#5329">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |