On Monday 30 of May 2011, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On May 30, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > > On Monday 30 of May 2011, Tomasz Pala wrote: > >> While updating my system I've noticed that xorg* packages still got > >> *.la files, while they all got *.pc as well. > >> Are there any other (not discussed before) reasons not to remove them? > >> Having *.pc was the main rule allowing to do this. > > > > No one was brave enough to rebuild all dependencies on ftp.pld- which > > would be required if la were dropped. > > Is it merely a matter of "bravery" or is there still a need for *.la? > > I'm asking the engineering, not the advocacy, question here: > Are *.la files useful?
Not useful for dynamic linking, only for static linking sometimes (when pc files are not used). > 73 de Jeff -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/ _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
