On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Olav Vitters <o...@vitters.nl> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:41:46PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote: >> Le vendredi 10 juin 2011 à 03:47 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit : >> > 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. >> >> Could you explain the rational of removing them ? >> >> AFAIK, the .la removal was not discussed, so starting by saying "we >> remove them now because last time, we didn't discussed and it broke lots >> of thing" is a little bit weird. > > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles > > Seems some distributions misunderstand the need and changed the wiki > page. Removing .la files is needed however, otherwise you'll quickly mix > distribution installed libraries and self-compiled libraries. > > Difficulty is that this only works when you remove *all* .la files. If > only one is left compilation is broken. > -- > Regards, > Olav >
i will try a new way to remove them and btw we maybe should add a rpmlint reject to reject packages with la files inside . but not yet as we may need to still build some the time of the transition.