On 18:34 Sun 09 Nov     , Peter Alfredsen wrote:
> "I've been told" that .la files are really only needed on non-ELF 
> systems and with plugin systems that use dlopen.

And for people who want to build things statically.

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Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
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