Sergio Belkin writes:
2011/4/1 Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de>:On 04/01/2011 03:17 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:HiJust 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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