On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:13:38 -0500 Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
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(B> On Saturday, 12 March 2005, at 02:07:32 (+0900),
(B> Carsten Haitzler wrote:
(B>
(B> > why put the .la and .a files for loader modules in -dev? they arent
(B> > used at all for anything. the code loads the .so modules and nothing
(B> > more.
(B>
(B> Are you certain? I believe the .la files contain dependency
(B
(Byes. imlib2 dleopn()'s the .so - it never load,s looks at or uses the .la. for
(BMODULES its not used by the linker (as its runtime dlopen()ed by the code) etc.
(Betc. (i changed imlib2's code to use raw dlopen - libltdl was just a pita to try
(Bsupport systems that don't handle dlopen - which now are a massive minority of
(Blegacy unicies like ultrix - most of these systems are now dead, or so slow
(B(compared to that cheap $100 second hand pc) that u'd be stupid to do image
(Bprocessing on them anyway :) ).
(B
(B> information for those systems that require it. The .a files are
(B> certainly unnecessary, though, and can be easily omitted using the
(B> --disable-static parameter to autogen.sh/configure.
(B
(Bi want the .a for libImlib2 itself and the .la for libImlib2 itself too - as the
(B.la is used by libtools builder to determine what it has to link with, if
(Banything, and the .a to allow u to build statically (though pointless as this is
(Bas imlib2 will need the loaders installed to load/save anything so u cant make a
(Bself-contained binary lump through static compilation)
(B
(B> Michael
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