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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev]  Re: Removing .la files...
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:36:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <485A288C.4020203@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806190910.33223.levertond@googlemail.com>

David Leverton wrote:
> On Thursday 19 June 2008 08:51:15 Luca Barbato wrote:
>> We could either pick a week and do a major ebuild update to remove .la
>> files when unnecessary or just append a notice about revdep rebuild.
> 
> How do you decide when they're unnecessary?

.la are used for :

1 getting static libraries (pkg-config replaces this use)
2 load plugins using libtool support

if you have a pkg-config and you aren't building plugins you can do 
w/out them.

lu

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-19  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-19 18:50 [gentoo-dev] Removing .la files Wulf C. Krueger
2008-04-19 19:50 ` Alistair Bush
2008-04-19 19:53   ` Luca Barbato
2008-04-19 19:57     ` Petteri Räty
2008-04-19 19:51 ` Luca Barbato
2008-04-19 20:18 ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-04-19 20:25   ` Petteri Räty
2008-04-19 20:28     ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-04-19 20:33   ` Wulf C. Krueger
2008-04-19 22:03     ` Mike Frysinger
2008-04-20  2:29   ` Mike Frysinger
2008-06-18 22:22   ` Alexis Ballier
2008-06-19  7:51     ` Luca Barbato
2008-06-19  8:10       ` David Leverton
2008-06-19  9:36         ` Luca Barbato [this message]
2008-06-19 10:20           ` David Leverton
2008-06-19 10:39             ` Luca Barbato
2008-06-19 10:44               ` David Leverton
2008-06-19 12:08             ` Rémi Cardona
2008-06-19 12:13               ` David Leverton
2008-06-19 14:22               ` Olivier Crête
2008-06-19 14:28                 ` Mario Fetka
2008-06-19 14:44                 ` Rémi Cardona
2008-06-19 16:07             ` Jeroen Roovers
2008-06-19 16:16               ` Matthias Schwarzott
2008-06-20 21:48           ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-04-19 22:06 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
2009-04-13 21:17 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2009-04-13 22:55   ` Mike Frysinger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-10-24 20:09 Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-24 21:57 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2010-10-24 22:29   ` Nathan Phillip Brink

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