On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 11:16:47AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Armin K. wrote: > > > > 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. > To Armin: the systems all *built* without .la files, it was only during later upgrades (and, for different packages on each architecture) that I had difficulties. But nowadays I don't try to keep desktop systems in use for more than a year.
I think there was also a problem with ImageMagick (probably in the fedora bugzilla) because it couldn't find the delegates to actually do anything useful. ISTR that even fedora reinstated .la files for that package. 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
