Hi, On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 02:13:29PM -0600, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > I can certainly apply either method of fixing liblink-grammar4-dev > (either removing dependency_libs, deleting /usr/lib/*.la, or adding a > dependency on libaspell-dev), but I'm don't know what the consequences > of any of these methods would be, or what could break. > > Could you advise me what I need to test to ensure that references to > /usr/lib/libaspell.la are unnecesary? > > Thanks > --Ken Bloom > > -- > Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. > Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. > http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
The reverse-build-depends could break, in theory (but Debian tries to get rid of these .la files, so it shouldn't -- even gtk+ maintainers have dropped their .la files). I've rebuilt abiword twice (once with empty dependency_libs, and once without the .la file), and it built successfully each time. So it should be fine, since abiword is apparently the only reverse-build-depends of liblink-grammar4-dev. (I'm not a library expert, but this is what I could gather from <http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval>, <http://ftp-master.debian.org/~aba/la/current.txt> and <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00808.html>) Cheers, Lionel -- Lionel Le Folgoc - https://launchpad.net/~mrpouit E61E 116D 4BA1 3936 0A33 F61D 65D9 A66E 10E2 969A
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