[Fedora-packaging] Re: LibtoolArchives, v0.3

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Jan 17 14:49:55 UTC 2007


Rex Dieter wrote:
> Enrico Scholz wrote:
> 
>> rdieter at math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) writes:
>>
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/LibtoolArchives
>>> ...
>>> Comments?
>> | MUST: If .la libtool archives in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH2 cannot be excluded,
>> | they MUST be included in -devel (with associated .so symlink).
>>
>> is wrong... it should be
>>
>> | MUST: If .la libtool archives in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH cannot be excluded,
>> | they MUST be included in main-package but NOT in -devel.
> 
> Huh?  .la libtool archives in LD_LIBRARY_PATH are those used for *linking*,
> so why not -devel?

I suppose a case could still exist where .la files are needed for 
runtime (though I can't think of any, now that kde is fixable), so we 
could reword this to leave it to the packager's discretion.

-- Rex




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