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

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Olav Vitters wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:15:01PM +0200, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
>>> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles
>>
>> "... but the dirty hacks that jhbuild plays ..."
>>
>> Problems with dirty hacks are NOT a valid reason to remove libtool
>> convenience libraries aka .la files.
>
> Seems you skipped the initial bit, where it explains that the .la has
> the full path.

What's wrong with those paths? I'm saying the problem is in gnome-shell, 
not in the .la files.

>>> 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.
>>
>> What are you talking about here?

<gnome-shell stuff>

So you are really talking only about gnome-shell, which I can't even test 
because apparently it doesn't work in a VM. It is now packaged, so you 
don't need to build it.


     Christiaan