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Il giorno dom, 31/10/2010 alle 03.30 -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto |
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ha scritto: |
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> As agreed in the meeting, as a first draft, we have that "the motion |
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> is |
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> to drop la files, when appropriate, through the use of a function in |
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> eutils that will only be called if the static-libs use flag is not set |
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> or unless the package relies on pkg-config". |
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Let's differentiate already: |
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For *plugin* .la files, they should removed if the software is not |
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relying on them to load its plugins, see [1]. This is the case for PAM, |
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Python, Ruby and I guess Perl, which commonly receive stupid .la files |
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in their paths. Repeat after me: they should just all be deleted _right |
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now_ since they are not going to be linked by anyone else and thus |
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Portage 2.1.9 is not making any difference. |
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For *libraries* .la files, they should removed if: |
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- you are not building any static archive at all (and this should |
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happen almost every time the library provides a plugin interface as the |
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plugins wouldn't work with a statically-linked archive); |
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- the official way to link to the library is pkg-config or some other |
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-config package; |
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- the package started as, or is evolving into, a non-autotools-based |
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package (most of X11 falls into this line since they started with imake |
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and that one never produced .la files so nobody should be relying on |
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them); |
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- the library depends on no other library at all (so there are no |
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dependencies to cater); |
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- finally, if USE=static-libs is set |
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Do note that static-libs USE flag causing the removal is the _least_ |
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common case, quite very likely, you're going to stop at the second line |
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in my list and then delete the files. It's similar to what I wrote on |
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[2], by the way. |
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[1] |
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/07/06/identifying-pointless-la-files-for-plugins |
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[2] |
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/09/28/removing-la-files-for-dum-w-uncertain-people |
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-- |
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Diego Elio Pettenò — “Flameeyes” |
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ |
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