On 06/01/2012 05:45 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > 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
Removal process is the following: find /usr/lib /lib -name *.la -delete Nothing else. I'll try 64bit system since I have 64bit capable hardware now ... But I tell you, every distribution does not have any single of those on any architecture, not just x86 ... -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
