Martin Costabel wrote:
> David Fang wrote:
> []
>> Martin,
>>      What ever happened to that script you wrote to regenerate
>> Apple's X11 .la files?  I think I have a copy lying around
>> somewhere.  Would that work?
>
> No, it wouldn't. As it turned out, the situation is worse than just an
> X11 problem, because also a couple of basic *.la files in /usr/lib
> have gone missing.
>
> It would, of course, be possible to enhance that script so that it
> regenerates *all* the *.la files that were present in Leopard, but
> somehow I don't think this is a good idea. Killing all fink-generated
> *.la files gives the best solution so far, although there is a certain
> feeling that this might some day have bad side effects.
>
My understanding is that this would primarily be the case for builds
against static-only library packages.  Unfortunately, since we've got
packages that install both static and dynamic libraries, scripting
rebuilds of every package that has a ".a" file would be a pretty big
rebuild on a typical user's system.

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