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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: .la files and their future on Gentoo
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:50:02
Message-Id: 4CAB10D7.2080505@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: .la files and their future on Gentoo by Angelo Arrifano
1 On 10/5/10 9:52 AM, Angelo Arrifano wrote:
2
3 > By removing .la files, you are taking away that choice from the user.
4 > For you they might be useless, for some user (or entire software house)
5 > it can be its holly grail for library versioning and linking. I don't
6 > really feel like forcing users to change their build setups just because
7 > we think they are useless, do you?
8 > - It is decisions like this one that *might* give us bad reputation.
9
10 Bluntly put, you seem to not know how libtool exactly works and further
11 down in the thread how linking exactly works. Please try to learn the
12 fine Gentoo docs on the subject and feel free to ask more details on irc.
13
14 lu

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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: .la files and their future on Gentoo Angelo Arrifano <miknix@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: .la files and their future on Gentoo Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>