On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:20:40AM +0900, David R. Morrison wrote:
>
> On Aug 31, 2009, at 6:22 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> I think we could cope without .la files if we had to, provided that they
> were all gone. But I don't see any good reason for following those apple
> developer's suggestion in this case.
>
> What we might consider doing, though, is this: removing any references
> to non-fink-created .la files from fink-created .la files. I haven't
> really thought through how hard it would be, but there may be some nice
> incantation we could put at the end of install scripts which would do it.
>
> -- Dave
>
Dave,
Alternatively, depending on how you think the split would end up in
terms of i386 vs x86_64 usage on 10.6, we could just have fink purge them
out now but only for the x86_64 debs and see how difficult it is to live with.
If it is managable, the change could be backported to powerpc and i386 fink.
Jack
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