Hi Thomas, 2011/8/14 Thomas Kahle <[email protected]>: > An amd64 arch tester asked me to 'remove the .la files' from mpir. I > must admit that I still don't see through this. Not all .la files are > evil, or are they? Should the ones coming with mpir not be installed? That depends on what depends on mpir!
Basically the .la files contain all dependencies of a library, but only a GNU build system using libtool makes use of these files, other build systems like cmake don't. However there are two cases, where it is 100% safe to delete the .la files: 1.) mpir comes with a pkg-config (.pc) file. 2.) mpir only installs a shared libs, which have an internal dependencies memory. But i guess the use of the autotool-utils eclass together with static-libs useflag is the best solution. Cheers, Christoph > > Thanks for any hints, > Thomas > > -- > Thomas Kahle > http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ >
