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

Fri Jun 10 17:34:40 CEST 2011

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Olav Vitters wrote:
+
+> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:35:57PM +0200, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
+>> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Olav Vitters wrote:
+>>
+>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:15:01PM +0200, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
+....
+
+>>>>> 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?
+>>
+>> <gnome-shell stuff>
+>
+> It is not gnome-shell, it is jhbuild and doing development (mainly
+> GNOME). Basic GNOME already has ~200 modules.
+
+Then why did you quote the webpage instead of saying just that?
+
+>> So you are really talking only about gnome-shell, which I can't even
+>> test because apparently it doesn't work in a VM. It is now packaged,
+>> so you don't need to build it.
+>
+> Nope, I'm talking about doing development using jhbuild. E.g. if you
+> want to contribute to GNOME, you'll have to get rid of all the .la
+> files no matter which distribution you use.
+>
+> A new GNOME does not happen automatically. It requires people to compile
+> the Git versions and committing stuff until a tarball is released and
+> packaged.
+>
+> Making such development easier would result in a better GNOME, and I
+> don't mind if the .la files stay, but prefer if they are removed.
+
+I think doing software development related to the system you're working on 
+isn't easy. For example jhbuild may not like .la files but if you want to 
+use static libraries supplied by the system, .la files are quite useful 
+AFAIK.
+
+So why did you point to that webpage if it's not related to mageia at all, 
+it's purely a jhbuild problem. If people are using a system with gnome 
+installed to develop gnome, it's not strange they run into problems. And I 
+wonder why they would have gnome related -devel packages installed in the 
+first place, they're not needed to *use* the system software.
+
+
+     Christiaan
+