Jeff Pitman wrote:
Would an effort to remove /usr/lib/*.la and see what builds okay, be
something important to do for FC5? Or not?
Absolutely. For shared libraries, in most(90%?) cases, the
/usr/lib/lib*.la files packaged are superfluous. The are also a sort of
cancer, that infects other .la files, causing library dependancy bloat
(ie, adding extra Requires to -devel packages that include the infected
.la files)
Here's a start of my efforts to help in this area:
SDL:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/145974
rpm:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/145978
subversion:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzila/170029
svn is tricky, it has lots of sublibraries
expat:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170031
db4:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170032
libjpeg:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170046
neon:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170049
apr:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170050
apr-util:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/170051
-- Rex