On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 15:09 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote: > On 17 October 2012 14:42, Phil Blundell <ph...@gnu.org> wrote: > > It's not obvious that libtool's .la files serve any very useful purpose > > on a modern system and they can be positively vexatious under some > > circumstances. Make installation of this stuff conditional on the new > > "libtool-garbage" flag in DISTRO_FEATURES and backfill it for existing > > distros. > > I never saw a patch with a less inflammatory (albeit accurate) name. > Libtool has been causing me pain again so I'd love to turn this on. > Is this still good for merging with a different name (libtool-la?)
The only minor roadblock to this is that RP wasn't very keen on the clean-on-reconfigure patch when I submitted that one independently, see: http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-October/031449.html Without some equivalent of that thing, turning off .la files in an existing build tree will cause you to start getting failures. I guess we could just accept that as an occupational hazard, and say that people who turn off libtool-la need to take care of the necessary cleaning for themselves. Other than that, yes, I would also like to see this patch get merged. p. _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
