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