Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
Why would anyone want to do that? (I'm not talking about the
case
mentioned elsewhere in the thread were a non-libtool file is removed
by a mistake, but the actual case where one would want to keep
distributing a libtool file.)
The kdelibs3 plugin loader breaks down horribly if you remove the .la file
under it. (This was fixed in kdelibs 4, but the kdelibs3 compat library
stack still ships those .la files for that reason.)
Kevin Kofler