Re: RFC: librep without .la files, rep-gtk combined
- From: James Ralston <qralston+ml sawfish andrew cmu edu>
- To: General discussion about sawfish wm <sawfish-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: RFC: librep without .la files, rep-gtk combined
- Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:10:41 -0400
On 2011-04-01 22:48:20 +0300 "Kim B. Heino" <b bbbs net> wrote:
> While trying to get Sawfish into Fedora I had to remove libtool's
> .la files from rpm. By doing that everything broke.
>
> ...
>
> I applied these two patches, recompiled everything and removed
> all .la files: Sawfish works fine for me!
>
> Comments? Ideas? Anything?
You *might* be able to get the packages approved as-is, if you pointed
out that...
1. the *.la files are part of the packages' ABI and removing them
breaks it, and
2. you will work with upstream to remove the dependencies on the
*.la files.
However, it would be far better for librep/rep-gtk/sawfish to cease
using *.la files. None of (librep, rep-gtk, sawfish) seems to use
libltdl, so removing the *.la files shouldn't be that painful--as
you've discovered.
Besides, libtool archives have a long history of breaking things, and
many (most?) Linux distros have already banned them. E.g.:
http://www.archlinux.org/news/operation-libtool-slay-in-testing/
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