On 05/11/2011 06:30 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> Am 11.05.2011 18:27, schrieb Paul Elliott:
>>
>> I gather that new libraries in the usual case are supposed to delete the la
>> file. What is the standard way to accomplish this if the package is written
>> in
>> dh?
>>
>
> I am just using the following snippet in my rules:
> find debian/tmp/usr/lib -type f -name \*.la -exec sed
> 's/^dependency_libs/#dependency_libs/g' -i {} \;That cleans out the dependency_libs entry in the la-file, which is the correct thing to do IF there is another package referencing that file. However, if that's not the case (like when packaging a new library), the la-file shouldn't be installed at all.
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