Re: [PATCH 00/17] Various QA/unpackaged files cleanups

[Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>]

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 23:59 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 19:51, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > This patch series is for a number of QA/unpackaged files cleanups.
> 
> I noticed you have added .la files in some packages. This seems wrong
> and useless. In fact I am making a local patchset to drop them all and
> I have most build working (fixing last things before posting for
> review).
> 
> It seems very wrong to depend on .la files for linking and pkg-config
> seems to be the most right solution when possible.

I think Richard's patch to add the .las to the appropriate FILES is a
reasonable one.  Whether you actually want the .la files installed or
not is another question, but if your policy is that you don't then I
think the right answer is a global mechanism to suppress them rather
than tinkering with individual recipes.  It would probably be fairly
straightforward to make a new class which did something like:

do_purge_la() {
	find ${D} -name "*.la" | xargs rm -f
}

addtask purge_la after do_install before do_package do_populate_sysroot

which you could then call in from your DISTRO config as and when
desired.

p.