Armin K. wrote: > 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 ...
That may be more recent, but Ubuntu 7.04 (32 bit) has 248 .la files and Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) has 217 .la files. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
