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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 09:35:43
Message-Id: 485A288C.4020203@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 08:51:15 Luca Barbato wrote:
3 >> We could either pick a week and do a major ebuild update to remove .la
4 >> files when unnecessary or just append a notice about revdep rebuild.
5 >
6 > How do you decide when they're unnecessary?
7
8 .la are used for :
9
10 1 getting static libraries (pkg-config replaces this use)
11 2 load plugins using libtool support
12
13 if you have a pkg-config and you aren't building plugins you can do
14 w/out them.
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16 lu
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20 Luca Barbato
21 Gentoo Council Member
22 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
23 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removing .la files... David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removing .la files... Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>