Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 03:55:44PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > > 
> > > Then you should also remove the .la and .a files from the modules.
> > 
> > You mean @comment them?
> 
> No, just rm them in post-install.

The .a files should not be built at all.  There is no point in
compiling everything twice and then throwing one set away.
The .la files are harmless.

> > Why remove .la files?
> > Aren't they required to link against libs, even shared ones?
> 
> These are modules (see my former mail); they are not meant to be linked to.

.la files are needed if the modules are loaded with libltdl; they
are not needed for modules directly loaded with dlopen().

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          na...@mips.inka.de

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