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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removing .la files...
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:39:14
Message-Id: 485A3770.6040906@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removing .la files... by David Leverton
1 David Leverton wrote:
2 > On Thursday 19 June 2008 10:36:12 Luca Barbato wrote:
3 >> 1 getting static libraries (pkg-config replaces this use)
4 >
5 > Not for library consumers that use libtool but not pkgconfig.
6 >
7 >> 2 load plugins using libtool support
8 >
9 > Why only plugins? What's to stop an application from loading a "normal"
10 > library using libtool's dlopen wrapper (perhaps so it can fail gracefully if
11 > the library is missing, for example)?
12
13 Corner cases as usual...
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15 lu
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19 Luca Barbato
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removing .la files... David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>