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

[Olav Vitters]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:41:46PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote:
> Le vendredi 10 juin 2011 à 03:47 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
> > On 9 June 2011 19:35, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > as other distributions we started to remove .la files from mageia
> > > during mageia 1 development.
> 
> Could you explain the rational of removing them ?
> 
> AFAIK, the .la removal was not discussed, so starting by saying "we
> remove them now because last time, we didn't discussed and it broke lots
> of thing" is a little bit weird.

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles

Seems some distributions misunderstand the need and changed the wiki
page. Removing .la files is needed however, otherwise you'll quickly mix
distribution installed libraries and self-compiled libraries.

Difficulty is that this only works when you remove *all* .la files. If
only one is left compilation is broken.
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Regards,
Olav