RE: [gtkmm] RPMs/spec files/files with the extention .la

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: James Richardson [mailto:tkf-ml teknofile org] 
> Thanks for the bit of info. I knew about shared objects (.so's) and I
> was pretty sure the .a's were static obj's... that's why I was curious
> about the .la. 
> 
> I wish I understood why whoever wrote the packaging script would not
> want to package the .la file too.

I guess he might want them to go into a -dev rpm along with the headers. But
I don't have much clue about RPM spec files.

Murray Cumming
murrayc usa net
www.murrayc.com 

> 
> James
> 
> On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 12:36, Andrew wrote:
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> > *la files do not contain object code. They contain info about the 
> > corrisponding libraries (static and/or dynamic). *.a are 
> static libraries and 
> > *.so are dynamic libraries. They are used while linking. 
> See the attached 
> > file.
> > 
> > On my slackware distro /usr/lib contains *.a, *.so and *.la 
> files. I do not 
> > know anything about RedHat, sorry.
> > 
> > Andrea
> > 
> > On Wednesday 25 June 2003 19:22, James Richardson wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm currently trying to put together a few spec files to build the
> > > various gnomemm components.
> > >
> > > By looking at some spec files already created I noticed that they
> > > explicitly 'rm -f %{_libdir}/*.la'. (for example 
> gtkmm.spec). But some
> > > of the components won't build with the .la files (libgnomeuimm for
> > > example).
> > >
> > > In the stkmm.spec file I noticed a comment that said 
> "newer redhats
> > > don't use .la". So, what is a ".la" file? (i know it's 
> some sort of
> > > object code), Why would I not want to package it even if the linux
> > > distro doesn't use them. And why would a distribution not 
> use them?
> > >
> > > James
> > >
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