On 6 Feb 2012, at 16:40, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> It does cause trouble - it can make builds fail in hard to diagnose ways
> of other components that use libtool and link against those libraries.
> 
> *.la files are a workaround for lack of dependency info in static libraries
> and pre-ELF shared libraries - we have ELF, don't ship static libraries,
> and don't get any benefit from them, only problems.

There's already userland-gate/transforms/libtool-drop:

# stuff we drop from the proto area - not shipped
<transform file path=.+/lib/.+\.la -> drop>

So even if they appear in the .p5m files, I don't think they're actually being 
published?


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