#4624: Defects found through ICA
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Reporter: pierre.labastie | Owner: pierre.labastie
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: 9.2
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by xry111):
Replying to [comment:7 pierre.labastie]:
> '''.la files change the libraries that are linked into programs'''
>
> Because of a bug in ICA (now fixed), .la files were deleted after first
pass, but not after second. This was leading to various programs begin
linked differently between 2nd and 3rd pass, and also some RPATH added on
3rd pass.
>
> '''Solution'''
> .la files are evil! Strongly suggest to delete them, but "your distro,
your rules".
>
> '''Possible side effect'''
> Several if '''not''' removing .la files (specially because of the
mixture between meson and libtool).
.la files are really evil. In BLFS, libxml2.la makes everything depending
on libxml2.so.2 also depending on libicu*.so.${version}. And when icu is
upgraded (its soname often change) tons of packages have to be rebuilt.
Now I remove those .la files after installing any package.
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