On 05-10-2010 13:49, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 10/5/10 9:52 AM, Angelo Arrifano wrote: > >> By removing .la files, you are taking away that choice from the user. >> For you they might be useless, for some user (or entire software house) >> it can be its holly grail for library versioning and linking. I don't >> really feel like forcing users to change their build setups just because >> we think they are useless, do you? >> - It is decisions like this one that *might* give us bad reputation. > > Bluntly put, you seem to not know how libtool exactly works and further > down in the thread how linking exactly works. Please try to learn the > fine Gentoo docs on the subject and feel free to ask more details on irc. > > lu > >
I just talked with Samuli and Luca at IRC and indeed there were some issues in my reasoning about libtool's behavior. Applications expecting overlinking to link correctly would be broken anyway due to -Wl,--as-needed . Since all the issues I tried to point will not be verified anyway, I don't see anymore why we can't proceed with the proposal. Moreover, due to my past in fixing .la files to let programs cross-compile correctly I actually welcome this change. So here it is my +1
