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On Saturday 13 August 2011 23:40:58 you wrote: |
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> Hi science devs, |
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> An amd64 arch tester asked me to 'remove the .la files' from mpir. I |
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> must admit that I still don't see through this. Not all .la files are |
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> evil, or are they? Should the ones coming with mpir not be installed? |
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> Thanks for any hints, |
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> Thomas |
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Hi Thomas, |
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most of the time they are just unnecessary - if you do not install both shared |
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and static libraries I suggest to drop them. I am not an expert, but Flameeyes |
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has some enlightening post on his blog, e.g. |
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/04/14/what-about-those-la-files |
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I suggest you simply use the autotool-utils.eclass (mpir uses autotools, |
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right?) which take care of them. The eclass' manpage provides a nice example |
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how to achieve this behavior (note the use of "static-libs" USE-flag). |
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Cheers, |
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Christopher |
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