On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:41:46PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote: > Le vendredi 10 juin 2011 à 03:47 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit : > > On 9 June 2011 19:35, Dexter Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > as other distributions we started to remove .la files from mageia > > > during mageia 1 development. > > Could you explain the rational of removing them ? > > AFAIK, the .la removal was not discussed, so starting by saying "we > remove them now because last time, we didn't discussed and it broke lots > of thing" is a little bit weird.
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles Seems some distributions misunderstand the need and changed the wiki page. Removing .la files is needed however, otherwise you'll quickly mix distribution installed libraries and self-compiled libraries. Difficulty is that this only works when you remove *all* .la files. If only one is left compilation is broken. -- Regards, Olav
