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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Cc: openembedded-core <openembedded-core@openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] .la files cleanup
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:32:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317641569.12684.0.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALT56yPoAbv43D_CGsGHMjr+eQxhNUJAW_Ryznoi7Tz8tb7THA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 14:58 +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> Proposal: extend some bbclass with a task to remove unused .la files
> 
> Rationale: There are lots of recipes, which install tons of .la files
> (thanks libtool),
> but then do not ship them (correctly as most of them are unused in
> real systems).
> My proposal would be to include a special task or a
> do_install_append() part that
> will remove specified .la files. (like ${libdir}/xorg/modules/*/.la,
> ${libdir}/matchbox-panel/*.la, etc.). I see this usually done in
> do_install or in special do_install_append
> parts, but I think it would be better to handle this globally.

I think the simple append to the recipes concerned is just as simple as
any addition to core classes to try and do this generically...

Cheers,

Richard







  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-03 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-03 10:58 [RFC] .la files cleanup Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-10-03 11:32 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2011-10-03 14:55 ` Phil Blundell
2011-10-03 17:06   ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-10-03 18:34     ` Otavio Salvador
2011-10-03 20:28   ` Khem Raj

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