From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.pbcl.net ([88.198.119.4] helo=hetzner.pbcl.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdja5-0003o9-AY for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:29:45 +0100 Received: from elite.brightsigndigital.co.uk ([81.142.160.137] helo=[172.30.1.145]) by hetzner.pbcl.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TdjMJ-00044N-3o; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:15:31 +0100 From: Phil Blundell To: "Burton, Ross" Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:15:29 +0000 In-Reply-To: References: <1350481324.3259.185.camel@phil-desktop> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2- Message-ID: <1354115731.23886.94.camel@phil-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] autotools: Don't install .la files if the distro doesn't want them X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:29:45 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 15:09 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote: > On 17 October 2012 14:42, Phil Blundell wrote: > > It's not obvious that libtool's .la files serve any very useful purpose > > on a modern system and they can be positively vexatious under some > > circumstances. Make installation of this stuff conditional on the new > > "libtool-garbage" flag in DISTRO_FEATURES and backfill it for existing > > distros. > > I never saw a patch with a less inflammatory (albeit accurate) name. > Libtool has been causing me pain again so I'd love to turn this on. > Is this still good for merging with a different name (libtool-la?) The only minor roadblock to this is that RP wasn't very keen on the clean-on-reconfigure patch when I submitted that one independently, see: http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-October/031449.html Without some equivalent of that thing, turning off .la files in an existing build tree will cause you to start getting failures. I guess we could just accept that as an occupational hazard, and say that people who turn off libtool-la need to take care of the necessary cleaning for themselves. Other than that, yes, I would also like to see this patch get merged. p.