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

Fri Jun 10 16:15:01 CEST 2011

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Olav Vitters 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
+
+"... but the dirty hacks that jhbuild plays ..."
+
+Problems with dirty hacks are NOT a valid reason to remove libtool 
+convenience libraries aka .la files.
+
+> 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.
+
+What are you talking about here?
+
+> Difficulty is that this only works when you remove *all* .la files. If
+> only one is left compilation is broken.
+
+It is more likely that your build system is broken. If you do not want to 
+link against system libraries, remove /lib and /usr/lib from the library 
+search dirs list.
+
+
+     Christiaan
+