On 17:24 Wed 12 Nov , Peter Alfredsen wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > And for people who want to build things statically. > > That's true, but we generally don't want to do that, so that's fine. > If needed for a package, we just don't punt la files for it and its > dependencies. But generally, we should really only be building .so > files and they just don't need .la files.
We should enable our users to do things they want to do and not get in their way. That's the Gentoo philosophy. > If someone really wants .la > files, we could introduce a variable: > IWANTTHECRAPPYLAFILESANDIKNOWWHATIMDOING=yes > to be placed in make.conf. Where do you even usefully document its existence, if it's a feature of some function in some eclass? > But the great thing about having a utility function is that you can > make general exceptions to the rule with tweaks like that. Yep, just as you can with a number of other possible ways of handling this. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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