On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Olav Vitters 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
"... but the dirty hacks that jhbuild plays ..."Problems with dirty hacks are NOT a valid reason to remove libtool convenience libraries aka .la files.
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.
What are you talking about here?
Difficulty is that this only works when you remove *all* .la files. If only one is left compilation is broken.
It is more likely that your build system is broken. If you do not want to link against system libraries, remove /lib and /usr/lib from the library search dirs list.
Christiaan
