[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Removing .la files

Fri Jun 10 13:51:38 CEST 2011

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:41:46PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> Le vendredi 10 juin 2011 à 03:47 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+> > On 9 June 2011 19:35, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > > Hello,
+> > >
+> > > as other distributions we started to remove .la files from mageia
+> > > during mageia 1 development.
+> 
+> Could you explain the rational of removing them ?
+> 
+> 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.
+
+https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles
+
+Seems some distributions misunderstand the need and changed the wiki
+page. Removing .la files is needed however, otherwise you'll quickly mix
+distribution installed libraries and self-compiled libraries.
+
+Difficulty is that this only works when you remove *all* .la files. If
+only one is left compilation is broken.
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+