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+ <B>Olav Vitters</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Removing .la files">olav at vitters.nl
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+ <I>Fri Jun 10 16:26:35 CEST 2011</I>
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+<PRE>On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:15:01PM +0200, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
+&gt;<i> &gt;<A HREF="https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles">https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles</A>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> &quot;... but the dirty hacks that jhbuild plays ...&quot;
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Problems with dirty hacks are NOT a valid reason to remove libtool
+</I>&gt;<i> convenience libraries aka .la files.
+</I>
+Seems you skipped the initial bit, where it explains that the .la has
+the full path.
+
+&gt;<i> &gt;Seems some distributions misunderstand the need and changed the wiki
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;page. Removing .la files is needed however, otherwise you'll quickly mix
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;distribution installed libraries and self-compiled libraries.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> What are you talking about here?
+</I>
+&quot;The particular problem with these .la files is that they have hardcoded
+paths in them. So, for example, if /usr/lib/libgnome-menu.so just
+contains the information that it requires libglib-2.0.so.0 but
+/usr/lib/libgnome-menu.la says that it wants /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.la, it
+causes libtool to link against /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so at link time.
+This is fine for a lot of typical build scenarios, but the dirty hacks
+that jhbuild plays to get it to sandbox your system understandably
+breaks. &quot;
+
+&gt;<i> &gt;Difficulty is that this only works when you remove *all* .la files. If
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;only one is left compilation is broken.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> It is more likely that your build system is broken. If you do not
+</I>&gt;<i> want to link against system libraries, remove /lib and /usr/lib from
+</I>&gt;<i> the library search dirs list.
+</I>
+That's not enough, the .la files add libraries in /lib and /usr/lib.
+
+Fedora has for instance already removed the .la files. Other
+distributions are working on it (even Debian).
+--
+Regards,
+Olav
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