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Re: [opensuse-packaging] Shared Library Policy
- From: Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:03:42 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708221102250.13885@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21. August 2007, JP Rosevear wrote:
>
> > 2) No reference to .la files
> > Do we finally want to kill those as a matter of policy? If so, should we
> > write a macro to do it?
>
> There is a build and a rpmlint check to discover unneccessary .la files, you
> can kill those. In general killing them is bad is it breaks static linking.
Though in general we do not want to ship static libraries, so .la files
without a static library should be avoided.
Richard.
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> On Tuesday, 21. August 2007, JP Rosevear wrote:
>
> > 2) No reference to .la files
> > Do we finally want to kill those as a matter of policy? If so, should we
> > write a macro to do it?
>
> There is a build and a rpmlint check to discover unneccessary .la files, you
> can kill those. In general killing them is bad is it breaks static linking.
Though in general we do not want to ship static libraries, so .la files
without a static library should be avoided.
Richard.
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