[Bug 342674] New: Missing file in libgcrypt-devel
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=342674 Summary: Missing file in libgcrypt-devel Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Security AssignedTo: security-team@suse.de ReportedBy: Werner.Dittmann@t-online.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Customer In the libgcrypt-devel-1.2.4.39 package the file libgcrypt.la is missing. Thus it is no possible to link applications to libgcrypt.so. This file was available in previous openSUSE versions. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Marcus Meissner
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--- Comment #2 from Werner Dittmann
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Cristian Rodriguez
In the libgcrypt-devel-1.2.4.39 package the file libgcrypt.la is missing. Thus it is no possible to link applications to libgcrypt.so. This file was available in previous openSUSE versions.
those files are not missing, they have been removed _intentionally_ and will most likely never come back again. Care to elaborate what problem you have ? nothing referencse libgcrypt.la in the distribution. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #4 from Cristian Rodriguez
AFAIK libtool needs the .la files to get information about the shared libraries so that it can link to them.
No, they are not neccesary.
IMHO .la files are necessary in development packages
"la" files, in shared library packages causes an awful lot of pain and bloat,that we are trying to eliminate because they infect all dependant packages recursively... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #5 from Werner Dittmann
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--- Comment #6 from Marcus Meissner
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--- Comment #7 from Werner Dittmann
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--- Comment #8 from Cristian Rodriguez
if I understand this correctly you should package the .la because the -devel package contains the static libgcrypt.a and library.so.
and if sometething is linking statically and fails to because of this, we want to know in order to fix the package to use only shared libraries ;) but in any case, no package of the **complete distribution** * "obs"..fails because this particular problem. Please provide the exaxt, complete error message. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #9 from Werner Dittmann
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Ludwig Nussel
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