On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 15:12 -0600, Jerry James wrote:
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Colin Walters
<walters(a)verbum.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Debarshi Ray <debarshi.ray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> I noticed that the dia package has %{_libdir}/%{name}/*.la files. Any
>> particular reason for them to be there? Doesn't guidelines ask us to
>> remove them?
>
> Yes, please remove them. We should not encourage the libtool agenda
> to redefine how shared libraries work on our platform.
I've got quite a collection of .la files under /usr/lib64 on my Fedora
9 x86_64 machine. All of the following packages contain at least one
.la file:
<snip>
bluez-utils
Obsolete package, bluez doesn't have any .la files.
<snip>
gnome-bluetooth-libs
Fixed in CVS.
Cheers