On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Carol Spears wrote:
what purpose do the files with the extension .la have? it was suggested to me to remove them. this idea is very appealing because of these libtool issues and also because of my respect for the person who suggested it.
Libtool records information about the library in the .la file. This allows libtool to deal with libraries in an operating system independent fashion so that it can work similarly across many operating systems. Libtool reads existing .la files in order to learn more about the associated libraries (and the libraries they depend on) at link time. The .la files are just text files so you could look at them in vi. The only reason to delete a .la file is if its content is wrong. Content can become wrong if someone moves a library that the described library depends on to some other location, or replaces it with one that itself depends on a different set of libraries.
for an undefinable amount of time. i wonder how i got the feeling i was hanging out in the mens room when i subscribed to this list?
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