Quoting Tijl Coosemans <[email protected]> (from Thu, 5 Jun 2014
18:53:03 +0200):
On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:39:21 -0500 Bryan Drewery wrote:
I don't know what .la files are used for and have no time currently to
research it.
What is the impact to non-ports consumers of removing .la files? Do they
also need patches to make them build?
Removing a .la file is somewhat like a library version bump. Anything
that depends on it needs to be recompiled.
I remember from tests waaaaay in the past that not all programs will
be happy when the .la files are not there. I remember that I once
tried to remove the .la files but it didn't work as the program wanted
to open the .la files (after recompile). Maybe libltdl is openening
them? Did you make some checks/tests in this regard?
Bye,
Alexander.
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