[gentoo-dev] cause for *.la files not getting unmerged?

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

it seems, i have some *.la files on my system, that don't belong to any
ebuild anymore. I noticed that, because the new revdep-rebuild
(gentoolkit 0.2.2) also check *.la files, and some were broken (pointing
to a libstdc++.la of gcc 4.1.1 - but gcc 4.1.1 has none).

So the history is:
- gcc 3.4.5 was installed
- emerged gcc 4.1.1
(so 3.4.5 _and_ 4.1.1 were installed)
- updated gcc 3.4.5 to 3.4.6
(4.1.1 remained installed)

so after gcc 3.4.5 was unmerged, there was this procedure that updates
all the *.la files which point to the (now uninstalled) libstdc++ of gcc
3.4.5.

Could it be, that this procedure modifies the timestamps of the *.la
files? And is this the reason, that the *.la files don't get unmerged?


Thanks,
  Sven