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

Fri Jun 10 14:12:54 CEST 2011

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+
+i will try a new way to remove them and btw we maybe should add a
+rpmlint reject to reject packages with la files inside . but not yet
+as we may need to still build some the time of the transition.
+