Re: libtool bites us again (aka Libtool's Revenge, part II)

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>]

On 13 Dec 1999, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote:

>   So your solution is... what? Should we not include .la files in
> packages? Currently policy says that we need to include them, which,
> as things stand, blows multiple installed versions out of the

IIRC that policy was introduced for -dev packages. The .la should be
installed along side the real .a library for the odd chance someone needs
to statically link and is co-incidently using libtool too.

Jason


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