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

Fri Jun 10 18:24:10 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Ahmad Samir at 10/06/11 17:01 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 10 June 2011 17:56, Liam R E Quin <liam at holoweb.net> wrote:
+>> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 17:34 +0200, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
+>>>  If people are using a system with gnome
+>>> installed to develop gnome, it's not strange they run into problems.
+>>
+>> This is nonsense, sorry.  It's no stranger than a KDE-user wanting to
+>> recompile kwrite or krita.
+>>
+> 
+> If you want a proper package, you should build in a clean chroot; just
+> like the BS does, every single package is built in a clean chroot,
+> that's a necessary measure to ensure the quality of the produced
+> packages. If you don't build in a clean chroot, the build will pick
+> all sorts of old/new libs from the system... :)
+
+
+I seriously doubt people do want that.
+
+I don't want to compile from kernel, glibc upwards just to build 5 gnome
+or KDE modules.... I will want to use *some* system stuff and *some*
+self compiled stuff.
+
+Removal of .la files will make this much easier. I can't count the times
+I've had to do dirty hacks to work around these linking issues.
+
+Col
+
+
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