Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hello James,
* James Leek wrote on Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:23:25PM CET:
Hi, I'm having a bit of a problem. I would really like to build my
tests as installed-type binaries when I run 'make installcheck' in order
to make it easier to run a debugger on them.
* James Leek wrote on Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:32:46PM CET:
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
First off, what you're trying to do fits much better with the 'check'
target than with the 'installcheck' target: the former is meant to test
things before you ever run 'make install', the latter is meant to
Hello Rafał,
* Rafał Mużyło wrote on Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 09:57:42PM CET:
Now, unless I misunderstood a few posts here , libtool 2 should be
about as efficient as dolt claims to be.
I don't know. 2.x is quite a bit faster than 1.5.x. If there is still
a noticeable difference to dolt, then we
Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Looks like I didn't look closely enough. For sure fedora removes all
the .la files unless there is a specific reason to need them. I
thought debian was too, but it looks like they keep them. My fault.
Debian decides this on a maintainer-by-maintainer
Hello Russ,
* Russ Allbery wrote on Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:20:28AM CET:
The most frequent problem caused by *.la files is that they add a pile of
unnecessary dependencies to shared libraries, which further entangles
package dependencies and makes upgrades unnecessarily hard. (This is the
