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[Bogdan Cristea <cristeab@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 25 December 2008 20:02:50 Philipp Thomas wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:01:08 +0200, you wrote:
> > I am not able to compile from sources subversion 1.5.5 due to a
> > missing static library: /usr/lib64/libneon.la
>
> That isn't a static library as those have the suffix .a. .la files are
> libtool libraries and a package shouldn't need them to compile. If you
> have an URL for the subversion sources I could look at them and tell
> where the svn sources would have to be modified.
>
> We're trying to remove these .la files where possible because they
> create more problems then they solve.
>
> Philipp

Here is the link from where you could download svn sources:
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=260&expandFolder=74

I have noticed that there is no static library libneon.a in the default 
openSuSE 11.1 distribution. Compiling neon from sources as static library 
generates both libneon.a and libneon.la

-- 
Bogdan Cristea
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