Jack Howarth wrote: > Considering that Apple's X11 developers are recommending that > we tell user to nuke their installations and rebuild everything > from scratch under Snow Leopard as well as never install .la > files, why don't we take this opportunity to do just that. It may > cause some minor breakage in fink unstable (which should be > easily fixable), but we could modify fink to automatically purge > any *.la files from the packaged files in the debs created. Sure > we will need to correct some info file to remove the *.la from > the file list but that will be trivial. We really should embrace > this opportunity to purge out *.la files from 10.6 and later > releases.
Is anyone aware of a large-scale test of what happens if we indeed let libtool build all those *.la files and then simply remove them, despite each one of them screaming # Please DO NOT delete this file! # It is necessary for linking the library. ? Are there situations where they are really useful or perhaps even needed? BTW, just for laughs: Those *.la-phobic Apple developers didn't quite manage to get rid of them: They nuked the standard ones that really hurt many previously-built dev packages, like libexpat.la, libiconv.la, libxml2.la, but they didn't look in all subdirectories of /usr/lib. The result is that the number of *.la files below /usr/lib increased from 75 (10.5) to 124 (10.6). -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
