[haiku-development] Re: [RFC] Haikuporter - Removing the no-dependencies flag?
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:35:28 +0100
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:14:29AM -0600, Alexander von Gluck IV wrote:
> On , Jérôme Duval wrote:
> >Le 3 déc. 2014 18:34, "Alexander von Gluck IV"
> ><kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> > >
> > > We're starting to see bugs in letting applications write .la files.
> >
> >This has been discussed before. Either remove the .la files and fix
> >the pkgconfig files to reference devel packages dependencies,
>
> The problem is that some software expects libtool (.la) to be used and
> doesn't
> support pkgconfig, or chooses libtool before looking for pkgconfig.
I never saw anything that required these files to be there. libtool
seems to be able to guess the right thing. These files are relevant only
when using static linking and libtool in a project, as libtool is able
to figure things out without the la file for .so dynamic libraries.
So, it seems safe to just remove the files. They have little use, fail
at what they are supposed to do, and break other more important things.
Just delete them.
--
Adrien.
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