In regard to: Re: Multiple -rpaths, Ralf Wildenhues said (at 8:21am on Nov...:
* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 07:58:36AM CET:
So I guess the reasons why distros remove the .la files is because
they are within the default search paths.
Yes; and because some versions of libtool did the wrong thing wrt.
multi-ABI systems like x86_64. (BTW if there are still bugs in this
area, we'd appreciate reports.)
I thought the reason that distros remove .la files is because some distro
vendors feel that libtool often establishes direct link dependencies that
aren't needed, and those direct dependencies can cause headaches during
upgrades?
Tim
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