On 9 June 2011 19:35, Dexter Morgan <dmorga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > as other distributions we started to remove .la files from mageia > during mageia 1 development. > > Unfortunatly we didn't had enough time to finish this. > > I restarted this task today. > > > Please tell me if a build fails because of a missing la file. >
>From building pidgin-libnotify locally: libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.la' or unhandled argument `/usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.la' >From the chroot: $ cd usr/lib64/ $ grep libatk-1.0.la * libindicate-gtk.la:dependency_libs=' /usr/lib64/libindicate.la /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.la /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.la /usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.la /usr/lib64/libpangocairo-1.0.la /usr/lib64/libpangoft2-1.0.la /usr/lib64/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.la /usr/lib64/libcairo.la /usr/lib64/libpixman-1.la /usr/lib64/libXrender.la /usr/lib64/libX11.la /usr/lib64/libxcb.la /usr/lib64/libXau.la /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.la -lpng12 /usr/lib64/libpango-1.0.la /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.la /usr/lib64/libfreetype.la /usr/lib64/libxml2.la -lm /usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-glib.la /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.la -lresolv -lz /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.la -ldl -ldbus-glib-1 -ldbus-1 /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.la /usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.la -lpthread /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.la /usr/lib64/libpcre.la -lrt' I don't think just building packages and removing the .la will work, the inter-dependency is too wide, I count too many .la files up there. Reading these: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00783.html it looks like Debian are using sed to remove the .la files from dependency_libs field in .la files, there's a debhelper script, IIUC it's run before they build a package. This means it's something that a script run as root in the chroot can do, but I guess it needs to be fine-tuned. Meanwhile, just removing .la files will break a lot of builds (note that we have a lot of packages to rebuild for e.g. new libnotify major in Cauldron)... :( -- Ahmad Samir