On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 1:37 AM Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 07:20 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >> > > > > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, Matt Turner wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> > # Don't install libtool archives (even for modules)
> >> > - prune_libtool_files --all
> >> > + find "${D}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
> >>
> >> Maybe restrict removal to regular files, i.e. add "-type f"?
>
> > I suppose you should have spoken up when people started adopting that
> > 'find' line all over the place. Though I honestly doubt we're going
> > to see many packages installing '*.la' non-files.
>
> I have updated the example in ltprune.eclass now.
>
> That still won't catch regular non-libtool files, but people needing
> additional sanity checks can still use the eclass.
Perhaps we should un-ban the ltprune eclass for EAPI 7?
It seems like it would still be useful to have a way of detecting
libtool-archives instead of removing any file that ends with ".la".
