Dan McGee wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Allan McRae wrote:
>>
>>> Eric Belanger wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Although the '!libtool' option is used, there is a libtool file in the
>>>> package: lib/libhandle.la
>>>> I'm guessing that makepkg doesn't search /lib for libtool files so it
>>>> needs to be manually removed. Of course, I assume that it's not needed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That is actually a dangling symlink to the actual libtool file which was
>>> removed. Sending to pacman-dev so this can be fixed.
>>>
>>>
>> if [ "$(check_option libtool)" = "n" ]; then
>> msg2 "$(gettext "Removing libtool .la files...")"
>> find . -type f -name "*.la" -exec rm -f -- '{}' \;
>> fi
>>
>> Can we just remove "-type f" from the find statement? I haven't come up
>> with a problem in my two minutes of thought on the issue...
>>
>
> Maybe just to be sure, add a '! -type d' clause in its place?
>
>
Fair enough because a directory would cause the rm to fail. Although I
will personally hunt down the first software author whose install makes
a directory named in the form foo.la! :)
Do we care about the case where the symlink foo.la points to a directory
or a non-libtool file? I vote to ignore it until someone comes up with a
real world example...
Allan
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