what is a .la file

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 07:32:16PM -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
> i was looking into the qhull-devel package on extras, and I get a file
> which is in /usr/lib/libqhull.la. I have never seen a .la file before and
> so was wondering what this is, and how i should link to the library when
> calling. Any help?

They're libtool archives. There's actually a bit about this in the packaging
guidelines --
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-2302ec1e1f44202c9cc4bcce24cb711266557ad7>.

In short, don't package it unless you have to.

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