On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 12:05 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > Yeah, I dunno...maybe someone needs to fork libtool.
I should follow up to this; the thing is, libtool is at the intersection of so many cross-cutting issues: * RPM-style multilib vs Debian-style multiarch * Supporting libraries that use pkg-config vs those that still sadly don't * Windows vs Darwin vs GNU/Linux (in all its variations) * Cross vs native builds * "sysroot" support * Plugins: libltdl (and how that interacts with other cross-platform module loaders like e.g. GModule) * Component-internal build system vs external interaction; specifically libtool makes it easy to run *uninstalled* binaries, which is quite useful, and to do that inside the tree does require extra metadata in .la files So when I say .la files are worthless and broken, I really mean just for GNU/Linux systems (generally native builds, but likely also cross), and where things I care about know how to find .so files instead of .la, and only for *external* build system interaction; having .la files *inside* the build tree for a single component is fine, etc. I can't say for sure myself that having libtool unilaterally stop installing .la files wouldn't break anything; maybe there's some library out there that doesn't use pkg-config and relies on consumers using dependency_libs. But I do think it's at best unnecessary for the use case above; so maybe it should come down to an option, or something. _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
