[maemo-developers] Missing libtool file in sardine

[From: Tommi Komulainen]

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 09:23 +0200, ext Sergio Villar Senin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've realized that the file /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la is no longer
> available in the libosso-gnomevfs2-dev package as it used to be in bora
> and previous versions. Is there any reason for that?

Daniel put it nicely: "libtool .la files are serious, serious
braindamage." [1]

Basically the .la files are not useful on Linux, except for making
static linking a bit more convenient. On the other hand their presence
can cause artificial problems as described in the bug. As I've
understood it major distributions have also banned .la files from their
packages.


1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354674


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Tommi Komulainen                            <tommi.komulainen at nokia.com>