Sergio Belkin writes:
2011/4/1 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)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.