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From: Thomas Beierlein <tomjbe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Gentoo's plan to remove .la files: wording about when and how to drop .la files
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:18:18
Message-Id: 20101031221601.4c7df9ef@ham
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Gentoo's plan to remove .la files: wording about when and how to drop .la files by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
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4 On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:15:17 +0100
5 Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@×××××.com> wrote:
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7 > Il giorno dom, 31/10/2010 alle 20.09 +0100, Thomas Beierlein ha
8 > scritto:
9 > >
10 > > If I read the discussion correctly we will still need to keep
11 > > these .la
12 > > files around.
13 > >
14 > Most likely, yes… you can go a bit deeper about them (for instance
15 > PulseAudio can load its plugins with libltdl even if the .la files are
16 > not around, and the author _always_ recommended removing them), but
17 > that's probably something we don't have to care about so much as it
18 > is.
19 >
20 Anyway, I will look into it and try it out.
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22 > For what concerns the list I provided, that's just the output of the
23 > tinderbox in the case of hamlib, it was _Hamlib.la that triggered it,
24 > it is installed in the Python tree and Python does not use .la files.
25 >
26 Ok. Thnaks for the info. Another one will be libhamlib.la as it works
27 with pkg-config - so no need for it.
28
29 Regards,
30
31 Thomas.
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