On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 04:00:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/37/37338.html > > I am currently working on editing in the policy amendments, > and I find this amendment quite confusing. Could the rpincipals > involved in this clarify exactly where the .la files are supposed to > go? Are they meant for the -dev packages, or the main ones (there was > a comment about needing the .la files at run time)? Could someone > also provide a rationale for this? I am not quite upto speed with > libtool (having never used it -- I program cross platform for non-GNU > systems ;-()), and I would prefer if I could have the exact wording > people want to be included in the policy manual.
I'm not qualified to recommend anything unfortunately. From my limited understanding, including the .la files in the -dev package makes sense if only for dependencies among static libraries. I did note that libtool appeared to claim that .la files could be useful for non-development use of the library, specifically explicit loading and linking; however my gut reaction is "that's not necessary on sane systems like Debian!". You should include libtool maintainer Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the conversation. He's a bit stubborn (as you probably recall), but always seems to present strong arguments. (You can tell him I said that--we just got into an argument over bug tracking.) At least he'll be able to verify the accuracy of your proposed policy addition. Andrew
