Bug#37338: AMENDMENT] libtool `.la' files in `-dev' packages
Hi,
On 9 May, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 04:46:48PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote:
> > Description (from Joey Hess):
> > .la files aren't useless, libtool can use them and they are essential
> > to programs that use libltdl. Proposal is to include .la files in -dev
> > packages if they are produced by the build process.
>
> Pardon if I misunderstand libtool, but the first sentence suggests to me
> that .la files are in some circumstances required for the _use_ of a
> library. If this is the case, they belong in the main library package, not
> the -dev package.
Hmm. Good point. I'll check with the libtool folks about this. One
of the libtool maintainers suggested the `-dev' packages would be the
right place to put them but I believe that you are correct if libltdl
needs them during run-time.
-Ossama
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Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis
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