Dia has .la files
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Sat Nov 1 18:08:47 UTC 2008
On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:28:43 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> It's been a while since I looked at this but isn't libltdl a shared
> library? So in Fedora we should be running against the newer version of
> libltdl that does work with missing libtool archives?
Unless an old or customised copy of libltdl is used -- which has been the
case several times before. One of the more prominent examples was KDE,
albeit a few years ago. Wow, lots of hits at Google when searching for
such issues related to Fedora.
> > The other case where removing libtool archives causes breakage is
> > if there are inter-library dependencies in the .la files. Then you
> > need to remove all .la files.
> >
> True. That doesn't conflict with removing .la files everywhere, though.
Except that there has been resistance from some packagers, as they
refuse[d] to remove libtool archives. Perhaps this has changed
meanwhile. ;)
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