[Mageia-discuss] Removing .la files?

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Sat, 21 May 2011, Dexter Morgan wrote:

> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Balcaen John <mikala at mageia.org> wrote:
>> Le jeudi 5 mai 2011 22:04:11, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
>>> On 5 May 2011 18:33, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>>> And the first of the problems is gvfs failing to build:
>>> http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/uploads/failure/cauldron/core/release/201105052
>>> 31626.ahmad.valstar.17058/log/gvfs-1.6.7-2.mga1/build.0.20110505231702.log
>>>
>>> Maybe it's a little too late in the release cycle of Mageia 1; it
>>> could be a goal for Mageia 2...
>>>
>>> I am reverting changes I did in glib2.0, since it's too low in the
>>> stack, I think more stuff will fail; this is from a clean chroot to
>>> building gvfs:
>>> $ grep /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.la /usr/lib64/*.la | wc -l
>>> 20
>> mysql-workbench does not rebuild too :/
>> (missing .la files from cairomm)
>>
>
> strange is that it builds in fedora that removed all .la

Not strange, there must be some other package that contains a .la file 
with a reference to cairomm. Only .la files that are not referenced 
anywhere can be removed. But doing that iteratively will get rid of all of 
them (unless there are circular references).


     Christiaan