On 06/01/2012 06:59 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 11:16:47AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> 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. >> > On this 32-bit netbook (where I still haven't had time to even try > building my own kernel, much less sort out the other things needed > to build a useful system i.e. suspend, wifi), so still running > ubuntu, I've got 324 from 12.04 : some in the Python dirs, > liblirc_client, a whole load of sane (don't you just love the way > distro package managers add back previously deselected packages when > upgrading ?), gutenprint modules, some aspell filters, and the > ImageMagick modules. > > ĸen
Ah yes ... Some apps use those for loading modules. For example, cyrus-sasl is one of those, but I've patched it not to use them, but the .so ones directly. Among those is mpg123 which also uses .la files by default but they can be overwritten by configure switch. Possibly the sane does that too ... Haven't had time to check. I am following Debian and they announced removal of those ... Archlinux has removed them too. Not sure for Ubuntu, not using it anymore since 10.04. Only package I had problem compiling is OpenJade which explicltly adds /usr/lib/libosp.la to linker cmd line ... Simple sed fixes that. Other than that, I have no problems without any of those .la files. I had more problems when I had .la files. Also, I upgraded many packages, and never had any problems you mention to have. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
