Packages with libtool archives

[Sam Varshavchik]

Sergio Belkin writes:

> 2011/4/1 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>:
>> On 04/01/2011 03:17 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Just  a find on my Fedora 15 system for .la files, results in the
>>> following.  Do we run any routine tests for things like this?  is AutoQA
>>> meant to improve packaging?
>>
>> I sense a misunderstanding. Though it's right, in general *.la's should
>> not be shipped, there is no rule which is strictly prohibiting shipping
>> *.la's, because there are situations when *.la's can not be avoided to
>> be shipped.
>
>
> Wha situations? :)

A *.la file can specify linker flags, which libtool adds automatically to  
the link. An application might rely on this behavior.

This is frequently the case with static library. Although I can't  
immediately think of a use case for shared libraries, I would expect that  
there might be some.
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