David Leverton wrote:
On Thursday 19 June 2008 08:51:15 Luca Barbato wrote:
We could either pick a week and do a major ebuild update to remove .la
files when unnecessary or just append a notice about revdep rebuild.
How do you decide when they're unnecessary?
.la are used for :
1 getting static libraries (pkg-config replaces this use)
2 load plugins using libtool support
if you have a pkg-config and you aren't building plugins you can do
w/out them.
lu
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