On 04/07/2011 12:17 PM, Thomas Girard wrote:
Hello,
Le 07/04/2011 09:10, Paolo Bonzini a écrit :
On 04/06/2011 09:28 PM, codeh...@debian.org wrote:
gnu-smalltalk appears in this list as a source package because one or
more of the binary packages (usually -dev packages) contain .la
files.
I believe this is just the libc.la which is not a "normal" .la file and
should not be removed.
Indeed. This is the only .la file distributed in Debian GNU Smalltalk
packages. How again is it used Paolo?
It provides a portable way to load libc and libm across different
systems. In GNU Smalltalk you can use
DLD addLibrary: 'libncurses'
and (provided the -dev package is installed) it will automatically load
the libncurses.so shared object. Similarly it is desirable to allow
DLD addLibrary: 'libc'
However, libc.so is not a symbolic link to libc.so.6 unlike all other
.so files (and besides that, the library itself is not called 'libc' on
all systems). The simplest and most portable solution is to use a .la file.
Paolo
ps: yes, in the non-libc this introduces unwanted dependency on -dev
packages. This will be fixed in GNU Smalltalk 3.3
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