On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:45:19 +0200 Andrea Suisani <sick...@opinioni.net>
> said:
>
> > On 09/04/2012 02:40 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> > > I still wonder why these people install .la files, just remove them and
> > > it's all fine
> >
> > to my understanding it's a libtool requirment, i.e. I need
> > libgnutls.la to get elementary compiled. dunno why tough. :)
>
> it actually not required at all... unless you have an os that cant link
> shared
> libs with eachother or even do dynamic libs (.a's only). as such linux is
> far
> from being that os so you can safely delete all your .la files and
> everything
> will be fine.
>


Raster is completely right. These .la is for stupid systems. We don't
support them, but it happens that people are insane and keep these cruft
around.

For gentoo packages I've created, I deleted them all... but it seems that
some of the overlays do not do that anymore, unfortunately :-/

Our usage of pkg-config fulfills the needs of dependencies and finding all
the libs.

http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/10/libtool-archives-and-their-pointless-points
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2011/05/surviving-without-libtool-archives

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