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

Fri Jun 10 20:15:11 CEST 2011

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+
+> '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.
+
+I hope you realize removal of those files is unlikely to solve all your 
+linking issues, or maybe even none of them. As long as you have the .so 
+files from the -devel packages installed, the software you build can be 
+linked against those system libraries.
+
+
+     Christiaan
+