packaging

[Linus Walleij]

On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Eric Tanguy wrote:

> I read in
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines?action=show&redirect=PackageReviewGuidelines that : - MUST: Packages must NOT contain any .la libtool archives, these should be removed in the spec.
> Someone could explain me why ?

If you look inside a .la file you can see that it is some cruft used for 
GNU libtool-based libraries in order to provide "some extra stuff" to 
libtool when used with next project that may use libtool to link to the 
library in question.

Thing is, any sane program linking any sane library will find and 
configure this library anyway, atleast in a nice, well-structured, 
well-behaved POSIX environment like Fedora Core.

They may be very good on things like HP-UX, MinGW32, BeOS and what have 
you, but on Fedora they just take up space and blur sight.

Linus