libtool, not installing .la files?

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Wednesday, 15. December 2004 16:00, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Can't you just keep them this time? If you remove them (again), you're
> > going to cause lots of build failures for KDE users (again)...
>
> How so?  I'm pretty certain that the .la files are not used.

KDE uses them and libtool records library dependency information into them - 
and if prefers .la over -lfoo when doing so, i.e. if somebody compiles a part 
of KDE that uses libvorbis or libogg (like audio/arts), the respective 
libtool archive will have a DEPENDENCY_LIBS line that, for example, 
contains /usr/local/lib/libvorbisenc.la.

Now if somebody compiles another part of KDE that depends on that previous 
part (like kdemultimedia which links in arts parts) and the libtool archive 
is suddenly missing, the build will fail because libtool can't link.

The only remedy in that case is to recompile arts ... so if you plan to nuke 
the libtool archives from libvorbis and libogg again, please give me a heads 
up before doing so - I'll preemptively bump PORTREVISION for affected parts 
of KDE then.

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