Hi, On 9 May, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 04:46:48PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: > > Description (from Joey Hess): > > .la files aren't useless, libtool can use them and they are essential > > to programs that use libltdl. Proposal is to include .la files in -dev > > packages if they are produced by the build process. > > Pardon if I misunderstand libtool, but the first sentence suggests to me > that .la files are in some circumstances required for the _use_ of a > library. If this is the case, they belong in the main library package, not > the -dev package.
Hmm. Good point. I'll check with the libtool folks about this. One of the libtool maintainers suggested the `-dev' packages would be the right place to put them but I believe that you are correct if libltdl needs them during run-time. -Ossama -- Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26
