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<B>Christiaan Welvaart</B>
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<I>Fri Jun 10 16:15:01 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Olav Vitters wrote:
><i> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:41:46PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote:
</I>>><i> Le vendredi 10 juin 2011 à 03:47 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
</I>>>><i> On 9 June 2011 19:35, Dexter Morgan <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">dmorganec at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>>>><i> Hello,
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> as other distributions we started to remove .la files from mageia
</I>>>>><i> during mageia 1 development.
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</I>>><i> Could you explain the rational of removing them ?
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</I>>><i> AFAIK, the .la removal was not discussed, so starting by saying "we
</I>>><i> remove them now because last time, we didn't discussed and it broke lots
</I>>><i> of thing" is a little bit weird.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> <A HREF="https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles">https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles</A>
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"... but the dirty hacks that jhbuild plays ..."
Problems with dirty hacks are NOT a valid reason to remove libtool
convenience libraries aka .la files.
><i> Seems some distributions misunderstand the need and changed the wiki
</I>><i> page. Removing .la files is needed however, otherwise you'll quickly mix
</I>><i> distribution installed libraries and self-compiled libraries.
</I>
What are you talking about here?
><i> Difficulty is that this only works when you remove *all* .la files. If
</I>><i> only one is left compilation is broken.
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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
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