Packages with libtool archives

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 11:21:25 -0300, Sergio wrote:

> 2011/4/1 Ralf Corsepius:
> > 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? :)

Run-time and/or build-time [inter-]dependencies on .la files. You can find
several threads in Fedora-land, not limited to that one ->
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2006-October/thread.html#start