On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:52:11 -0800, Toshio wrote:
- Is it the packagers job to fix things like this? It's certainly a
Fedora-specific packaging policy to remove *.la files, so this is not something that we can force on upstream.
Libtool archives in private plugin/modules directories are harmless as they are located outside build-time linker's search path. Such directories must never be added to the search path via -L.
When these files are built, you just need to make sure that no inter-library dependencies on external .la files are inserted, which may break later when those files are removed.