On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:04:59PM +0200, Armin K. wrote: > > oh man, I can't believe you still use libtool files for compiling > programs. Every sane distro has removed them ... I haven't got any > single of them on my machine and yet everything works perfectly ... So > tell me, have you tried NOT to install that file? libtool will fall back > to -lsomething if .la file is not found.
As I said earlier this year, I've tried removing .la files in the past, and then been unable to upgrade packages where .la files were missing. Never on 32-bit x86, but on x86_64, ppc, ppc64. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
