On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 12:10 +0100, Frank Van Der Linden wrote:
> In
> general, generated *-config scripts and arguments recorded in libtool 
> .la files can leave lots to be desired. I really dislike the *-config 
> scripts, but I did notice that some packages depend on them when 
> building, to get info on others they depend on.
> 
> It would be a good idea to document all such issues in SFW and figure 
> out a way to properly fix them. 

The best way to fix .la files is deleting them.  Everything works
fine without them, in fact things work better.

laca at ferrari:~> ls /usr/sfw/lib/lib*.la
/usr/sfw/lib/libMagick++.la   /usr/sfw/lib/libgthread.la
/usr/sfw/lib/libMagick.la     /usr/sfw/lib/libgtk.la
/usr/sfw/lib/liba2ps.la       /usr/sfw/lib/libnetsnmp.la
/usr/sfw/lib/libg2c.la        /usr/sfw/lib/libnetsnmpagent.la
/usr/sfw/lib/libgdk.la        /usr/sfw/lib/libnetsnmphelpers.la
/usr/sfw/lib/libgimpprint.la  /usr/sfw/lib/libnetsnmpmibs.la
/usr/sfw/lib/libglib.la       /usr/sfw/lib/libstdc++.la
/usr/sfw/lib/libgmodule.la    /usr/sfw/lib/libsupc++.la

All these should go.  Shall I file bugs?

Laca



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