On 10/03/2012 11:25 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: > >>> While I'm at it, should we remove *.la files in the libraries: >>> >>> find /usr/lib -name \*.la -delete >> As a person who sometimes writes code against libraries in LFS, I'd >> rather not. But this might fall into the same category as removing >> static libs, or stripping debug symbols. > Yes, it does. I don't see where .la files are needed for linking in a > Linux system. AFAIK, the system will find the right .so file and link > against that just fine. > >>> We can add that to Section 6.64 - Stripping Again. What I've found is >>> that I get a lot of warning messages and sometimes failures when >>> packages try to use the .la files, but just removing them seems to fix >>> things up without causing other problems. >> Hmm, I haven't noticed that. Is this from files that got moved, or from >> something else? (.la files encode their original installation directory >> in the file itself, in libdir, so if they get moved after installation, >> the files need to be edited, otherwise libtool will complain. I don't >> *think* that will cause failures to compile, though...) > I kept getting messages when building various packages about files that > have moved from libtool during linking. It's irritating. I then > deleted the offending .la files and got errors from others about not > finding those .la files I deleted. I cured it by just deleting all .la > files. > > Example: > > libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib64/libxml2.la' seems to be moved > > This is caused by the symlink /usr/lib64 -> /usr/lib > > -- Bruce > > > I have been removing all the *.la files from may packages as well. They are removed when the package manager bundles up the files to create the finished package. When removed from the packages and then installing the package through pacman the system nerver sees the *.la files at all. So far I have not had any issues in LFS or BLFS currently in the xorg build process.
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