On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:28:43 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
It's been a while since I looked at this but isn't libltdl a
shared
library? So in Fedora we should be running against the newer version of
libltdl that does work with missing libtool archives?
Unless an old or customised copy of libltdl is used -- which has been the
case several times before. One of the more prominent examples was KDE,
albeit a few years ago. Wow, lots of hits at Google when searching for
such issues related to Fedora.
> The other case where removing libtool archives causes breakage
is
> if there are inter-library dependencies in the .la files. Then you
> need to remove all .la files.
>
True. That doesn't conflict with removing .la files everywhere, though.
Except that there has been resistance from some packagers, as they
refuse[d] to remove libtool archives. Perhaps this has changed
meanwhile. ;)