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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Removing .la files</H1>
    <B>Christiaan Welvaart</B> 
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    <I>Fri Jun 10 20:23:04 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:

&gt;<i> 'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 10/06/11 16:34 did gyre and
</I>&gt;<i> gimble:
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&gt;&gt;<i> If people are using a system with
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> gnome installed to develop gnome, it's not strange they run into
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> problems.
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</I>&gt;<i> I call shenanigans. I do this kind of stuff all the time. It's easy to
</I>&gt;<i> use a custom prefix (i.e. not /usr) if you select the right configure
</I>&gt;<i> options. It means you get a working system but can also develop the next
</I>&gt;<i> version. I've been doing this kind of stuff for years. The removal of
</I>&gt;<i> the .la files will make this approach much easier.
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Let's make one thing clear, however. These .la files are not created or 
installed by packagers, but rather by the build system of (in this case) 
gnome libraries. And maybe you are quite happy with the absolute paths 
in the .la files in your buildroot/prefix.


     Christiaan
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