Packaging policy for libtool .la files

[Michal Hlavinka]

On Sunday 22 February 2009 18:23:35 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Is there a set of packaging guidelines for libtool's .la files?
> >
> > There seems to be some inconsistency here.
> >
> > 1) libieee1284 and libieee1284-devel: .la files are installed by
> > libieee1284-devel rpm
> >
> > 2) arts and arts-devel: .la files are installed by the arts rpm
> >
> > 3) gnutls: the spec file removes and does not install the .la files
>
> #3 is the policy.
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Librar
>ies (and no, the policy is not only for static libraries).
>

Are you sure it's not only for static libraries? If I understand you correctly 
then there should be no .la files at all?  I have a lot of them:

# find /usr/lib64/ | grep '\.la$' | wc -l
376