Sergio Belkin writes:

2011/4/1 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@freenet.de>:

On 04/01/2011 03:17 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

Hi

Just  a find on my Fedora 15 system for .la files, results in the
following.  Do we run any routine tests for things like this?  is AutoQA
meant to improve packaging?

I sense a misunderstanding. Though it's right, in general *.la's should
not be shipped, there is no rule which is strictly prohibiting shipping
*.la's, because there are situations when *.la's can not be avoided to
be shipped.


Wha situations? :)

A *.la file can specify linker flags, which libtool adds automatically to the link. An application might rely on this behavior.

This is frequently the case with static library. Although I can't immediately think of a use case for shared libraries, I would expect that there might be some.