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Re[9]: The problem with pgk-config
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Konstantin Andreev |
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Re[9]: The problem with pgk-config |
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Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:44:32 +0400 |
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On 08/01/10 12:05, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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The one fly in the ointment is that a significant selection of libtool users
seem to find life more convenient when they delete all installed .la files,
which would make folding in pkg-config like functionality impossible. I
confess that I haven't really tried to understand why that is, since I always
leave the .la files in place, and they have never given me any problems
personally.
I guess people do not know what the .la files for. If everything works w/o .la
files, why keep them ?
Assume you are just a system administrator, which builds a fresh version of
software package. You are asking - what all these damned .la's are doing here ?
Google does not give you an easy answer, so you are deciding to experiment -
let's delete .la files. Does dependent software run ? Yes. May dependent
software be built from the sources ? Yes. So you are deciding to drop .la files
forever.
For .la files to be typically kept, the non-intentional, occasional users of
libtool, like sysadmins, should be told, what the .la files are used for, at
which moment and in which situations.
Best regards,
--
Konstantin Andreev, software engineer.
Swemel JSC
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