kchm packaging help needed

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Mar 14 13:07:22 UTC 2006


Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:03 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Conclussion: IN opposite to the packaging guidelines it may be
>>>make sense to put .la files into rpms for KDE programs.
>>
>>If the packaging guidelines don't already say it, the omission of .la 
>>files should be limited to shared libraries in %{_libdir}/
> 
> 
> That's not quite accurate.  For example many xmms plugins ship unneeded
> *.la but don't fit the above description.

But xmms' .la files don't cause harm like those associated with shared 
libraries do...

-- Rex




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