Packaging policy for libtool .la files

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:52:11 -0800, Toshio wrote:

> * Is it the packagers job to fix things like this?  It's certainly a
> Fedora-specific packaging policy to remove *.la files, so this is not
> something that we can force on upstream.

Libtool archives in private plugin/modules directories are harmless
as they are located outside build-time linker's search path. Such
directories must never be added to the search path via -L.

When these files are built, you just need to make sure that no
inter-library dependencies on external .la files are inserted, which
may break later when those files are removed.