Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
Why would anyone want to do that? (I'm not talking about the case mentioned elsewhere in the thread were a non-libtool file is removed by a mistake, but the actual case where one would want to keep distributing a libtool file.)
The kdelibs3 plugin loader breaks down horribly if you remove the .la file under it. (This was fixed in kdelibs 4, but the kdelibs3 compat library stack still ships those .la files for that reason.)
Kevin Kofler