Dia has .la files

[David Woodhouse]

On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 00:33 +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
> Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> >>> The ideal of course would be to convince libtool upstream that trying
> >>> to change the entire world to use libtool makes a lot less sense than
> >>> having those few modules that interact with shared libraries have
> >>> platform-specific code.
> >> The libtool developers understand that the .la files aren't needed in
> >> normal operation. The reason that they insist on keeping them is so
> >> that `make uninstall' works since the .la files are the only place
> >> that store information about the actual libraries (.so + links vs. .a,
> >> etc.).
> > 
> > Right - we have a "make uninstall", it's called "rpm -e".
> 
> Was a libtool fork ever attempted ?

Why fork it when you can just throw it away and forget it ever existed?

I just write proper Makefiles, and if I ever _want_ to spend a couple of
minutes watch some bizarre script trying to work out what type of
FORTRAN compiler I have on my system, I can write myself a little bash
script for that too.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation