From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-yw0-f47.google.com ([209.85.213.47]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RApDP-0000wu-3n for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:34:19 +0200 Received: by ywf7 with SMTP id 7so3766424ywf.6 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:28:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MVvh55+F6lhfW2uYQbnAF+nDQ4VyNZsK0CzlSrIkTQY=; b=B8Kam15yqmwIsKkBUmiSyIkU7MHG/ZYTnjOHABR2uWvoEkF64c56hR+gUnS1iKKN59 9H3OxCXB1fDhth396aomY1O/vLJQY95kGJ4+UNWdJkRRWU2GZUpKhaLklBHM2/n07I6l fZkyTqyqwvnKozzEtdkxZTXSJKVyinulDiZAM= Received: by 10.150.72.27 with SMTP id u27mr560036yba.246.1317673725805; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.23.2.133] (natint3.juniper.net. [66.129.224.36]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z5sm39290978anz.7.2011.10.03.13.28.44 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E8A1AFA.3060409@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:28:42 -0700 From: Khem Raj User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org References: <1317653702.13337.4.camel@phil-desktop> In-Reply-To: <1317653702.13337.4.camel@phil-desktop> Subject: Re: [RFC] .la files cleanup X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:34:19 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/3/2011 7:55 AM, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 14:58 +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: >> 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, >> ${libdir}/matchbox-panel/*.la, etc.). I see this usually done in >> do_install or in special do_install_append >> parts, but I think it would be better to handle this globally. > > I guess the ideal solution would be to find a way to stop libtool from > installing these things in the first place. It isn't totally obvious to > me that the .la files are a net benefit even for real shared libraries, > and for plugins I think they are probably a net loss in most/all cases. > I also have this opinion. I think we need to experiment by not installing .la at all and see what breaks. I would guess very little > When this issue last came up it seemed that Richard's preferred fix was > to just ship the .la files in FILES_${PN}-dev, and I guess that approach > does at least have the merit of simplicity. See: > > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2011-July/005533.html > > p. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core