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Re: Hardcoding of .la file paths in .la files



On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:21:50AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I'm coming into this thread very late, with what may be a stupid
> question, but can anyone tell me if the breakage could be avoided by
> just deleting the .la files in question?

Yes, it can.  I've advocated this on a number of occasions where .la
files were doing more harm than good.  They are really only of use when
working with static libs (which is almot never the case in Debian
itself), or when making poor use of ltdl plugin loaders.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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