Alasdair Lumsden wrote:

> 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?

It's not used by default, and only graphviz adds it to the list of
$(PKGMOGRIFY_TRANSFORMS).

Danek
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