On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 11:46:19PM +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote: > Looking at the Makefile.in it seems the file is (re)generated if it does not > exist
Indeed, to force the regeneration, I think that the best is to remove it. > > > 2. In Debian we installed the .la files into /usr/lib/texinfo/ until > > > version > > > 7.1.1 [3]. For the 7.2 packages [4] I skipped them: I could convert some > > > files using texi2any, so no drawbacks visible until now. > > > > > > Are these files really needed? > > > > I think not, on GNU/Linux and for installed libraries, the dynamic > > loading support and use of rpath should make sure that the libraries are > > correctly found and loaded even without .la, and in our code we do not > > error out if the .la is not found. In-source and probably for other > > platforms the .la are needed. > > > > For now I install again some of the *.la files (*XS*.la, but not lib*.la). > As far as I understaood this is sufficient. Indeed. And for the next release you could remove all the .la files. -- Pat
