On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:15:55 -0500 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:

> On Friday 11 March 2005 12:13 pm, Michael Jennings wrote:
> > Are you certain?  I believe the .la files contain dependency
> > information for those systems that require it.  The .a files are
> > certainly unnecessary, though, and can be easily omitted using the
> > --disable-static parameter to autogen.sh/configure.
> 
> i think we're talking about the .la files for the loaders, not the main 
> 'libImlib2.*' files ... in the normal course of things, if you link against 
> libImlib2.so and have it load say jpeg.so, jpeg.la and jpeg.a are not 
> needed ... the .la file is only used by libtool at build time which is why 
> you always want libImlib2.la ...
> 
> i dont think it's possible at all to link against the loaders directly is it ?
 
> so shouldnt the loader's .a and .la files be prunned from the normal `make 
> install` target ?

yup - they probably should be - but i havent gotten in the mood to play atuofoo
games to do this lately :)

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