On 3/28/19 12:30 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote:
On 2019-03-28 12:11 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote:
On 3/28/19 12:45 AM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote:
On 2019-03-28 15:15 +1000, James B via lfs-dev wrote:
The worst thing in autotools is the stupid libtool with a lot of .la files.
I agree with that. autotools was created for packages that want to be
available for many versions if Unix (solaris, hp-ux, etc) as well as
Linux. cmake and meson generally are targeted more specifically at
Linux where .la files are not needed.
More annoying thing, several packages still use libltdl so we can't just "find
-name \*.la -delete".
That's right, but only a few packages. Right now it is only
ImageMagick. There are also some references to .la files in pkgconfig
files also. That's why we have
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/introduction/la-files.html
-- Bruce
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