Re: [PATCH 3/6] xorg-xserver-common.inc: drop .la files from packages

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

On 04/09/2011 10:36 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 06:19, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
>> What would be the use case for having them there?  Nothing ever links
>> against them.  I think Otavio is right, they're better off deleted.
> 
> AFAIK .la files are used for in project linking not when linking with
> system or sdk libraries. So I'd prefer to remove them.

.la files have a defined purpose in a development area.  Until / unless
we move to globally killing .la files (see Richard talking about this on
the poky list a few weeks ago), we should ship these in the -dev
package.  If they're broken that probably means something isn't
inherit'ing the right class that should be fixing them.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation