On Oct 12, 2006, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)ATrpms.net> wrote:
Seems to really depend on the software generating/using them. Or
from
a different viewpoint: if they really were not required (on Linux),
then why are libtool authors installing them (on Linux)? We wouldn't
be having this thread if the simple statement ".la files are not
required" would indeed hold true.
They're part of the portable libtool library abstraction. Removing
them means you give up some of the portability. On GNU/Linux, with
the further constraint of not using static libraries, and only
installing libraries in directories searched by both ld and ld.so, you
don't lose or miss anything.
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