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Thanks... Do I take it they're just comment files, or do they fulfil
some technical role ? I can handcraft one by modelling it on another,
but I like to do why I'm doing things.
regards
Rod
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Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, John Clarke wrote:

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:35:36 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote:


Linux newbie here again - I've recompiled XMMS audio player and the plugins for Vorbis and Speex... can somebody tell me what is the purpose of the *.la files that get generated along with the .so plugin files ? I

Quoting a fellow list member:

  >Could you tell me what they(*.la , *.lo) are ?
  They're evil little bits of cruft created by libtool, which is
  supposedly a portable way to create libraries.
              -- Jamie Wilkinson


I said that?

I'm sure I would've used some more colourful language ;-)



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