On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 14:58 -0800, Jesse Adkins wrote: > > Following this is a whopping 66 patches. These patches cover every driver > listed under cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/ (So wacom and some other got > skipped). I skipped the drivers where configure was set to fail. > > Can you elaborate, perhaps in the bug report, the motivation for removing > this file? > All I read is that we don't want it or it's no needed. It must be important > enough for some > to justify adding this makefile hook. It is important to make sure that, in > a few months from now, > someone does not show up and say that it is needed for some reasons.
There are some pretty good blog posts that explain .la files here: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/04/14/what-about-those-la-files http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/07/02/again-about-la-files-or-why-should-they-be-killed-off-sooner-rather-than-later http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/04/18/some-details-about-our-old-friends-the-la-files In essence, .la files are needed for specifying library dependencies for static libraries, but are unneeded for dynamic libraries. Matt _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
