Re: RE : Bug#679990: ITP: clipper -- object oriented development kit for crystallographic computing

[Radostan Riedel <raybuntu@googlemail.com>]

On Fri, 06. Jul 20:47, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote:
> just for information, the .la are useless, look at here [1]
> 
> So the important point is to build the the .so files and there links the same way it is done with autotools.
> We need also to take into account that these libraries should be installed with the multi-arch-triplet on day [2]
> 
> exemple
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 aoû 15  2011 libgtkmm-2.4.so -> libgtkmm-2.4.so.1.1.0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 aoû 15  2011 libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 -> libgtkmm-2.4.so.1.1.0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3595428 aoû 15  2011 libgtkmm-2.4.so.1.1.0
> 
> See you
> 
> Fred
> 
> Ps: I am a little bit tired so I do not develop :))
> 
> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval
> [2] http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation
Great!!! So this is good new. I already files like this:
libcctbx.so -> libcctbx.so.0.0.0
libcctbx.so.0 -> libcctbx.so.0.0.0
libcctbx.so.0.0.0
So I won't take care of that *.la files clean things up write a patch and then
we can start talking with the upstream.