Re: Confusion about Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
Hi Manoj,
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/37/37338.html
>
> I am currently working on editing in the policy amendments,
> and I find this amendment quite confusing. Could the rpincipals
> involved in this clarify exactly where the .la files are supposed to
> go? Are they meant for the -dev packages, or the main ones (there was
> a comment about needing the .la files at run time)? Could someone
> also provide a rationale for this? I am not quite upto speed with
> libtool (having never used it -- I program cross platform for non-GNU
> systems ;-()), and I would prefer if I could have the exact wording
> people want to be included in the policy manual.
I need to revise the contents of the ammendment. `.la' files should be
included in `-dev' packages if they get generated by the source
distribution. However, if the package/distribution in question uses
libtool's `libltdl' library then the `.la' files _must_ be included in
the run-time library packages.
Manoj, I'm currently on vacation for another week. I'll be offline
during that period. Would it be possible to delay processing this
ammendment until then? Sorry about the confusion and any inconvenience.
-Ossama
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Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis
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