[Fedora-packaging] Re: libtool(.la) archive policy proposal
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Oct 13 13:09:57 UTC 2006
Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> writes:
>
>>>>> - .la files must be shipped in main package, not in -devel
>> ...
>> Aah, I think I see what you mean.
>>
>> libfoo.la is a loadable module.
>>
>> libbar.la is a library in a separate package that libfoo.la was linked
>> with.
>>
>> Someone lt_dlopenext()s libfoo, and that fails if libbar.la is not
>> available.
>>
>> Is this what you mean?
>
> yes
In my experience, this only fails if libfoo has undefined symbols.
-- Rex
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