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

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:

> 'Twas brillig, and Ahmad Samir at 10/06/11 17:01 did gyre and gimble:
>> On 10 June 2011 17:56, Liam R E Quin <liam at holoweb.net> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 17:34 +0200, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
>>>>  If people are using a system with gnome
>>>> installed to develop gnome, it's not strange they run into problems.
>>>
>>> This is nonsense, sorry.  It's no stranger than a KDE-user wanting to
>>> recompile kwrite or krita.
>>>
>>
>> If you want a proper package, you should build in a clean chroot; just
>> like the BS does, every single package is built in a clean chroot,
>> that's a necessary measure to ensure the quality of the produced
>> packages. If you don't build in a clean chroot, the build will pick
>> all sorts of old/new libs from the system... :)
>
>
> I seriously doubt people do want that.
>
> I don't want to compile from kernel, glibc upwards just to build 5 gnome
> or KDE modules.... I will want to use *some* system stuff and *some*
> self compiled stuff.
>
> Removal of .la files will make this much easier. I can't count the times
> I've had to do dirty hacks to work around these linking issues.

I hope you realize removal of those files is unlikely to solve all your 
linking issues, or maybe even none of them. As long as you have the .so 
files from the -devel packages installed, the software you build can be 
linked against those system libraries.


     Christiaan