Re: Are libtool .la files in non-dev library packages bugs?

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

>> Roberto Gordo Saez <rgs@linalco.com> writes:

 > $ dpkg -L kdelibs3 | grep \\.la$
 > /usr/lib/libDCOP.la
 > /usr/lib/dcopserver.la
 > /usr/lib/libkdefakes.la
 > /usr/lib/libkdeui.la
 > /usr/lib/libkdesu.la
 > /usr/lib/libkssl.la
 > diverted by kdelibs3-crypto to: /usr/lib/libkssl-nossl.la
 > /usr/lib/libkjs.la
 > /usr/lib/libksycoca.la
 > /usr/lib/kio_uiserver.la
 > /usr/lib/klauncher.la

 A wild guess: I don't know about the files named lib*.la, but the other
 ones could be plug-ins.  ltdl opens the .la file to find out the actual
 filename of the shared object.  Remember that libtool generates
 different filenames under different platforms (e.g. libfoo.so.0 vs
 libfoo.so.9 -- for whatever reason -- vs libfoo.sl.1).  Jason is right
 that for *our* purposes this is The Wrong Thing To Do(TM).

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