[OE-core] [RFC] .la files cleanup

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 14:58 +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> Proposal: extend some bbclass with a task to remove unused .la files
> 
> Rationale: There are lots of recipes, which install tons of .la files
> (thanks libtool),
> but then do not ship them (correctly as most of them are unused in
> real systems).
> My proposal would be to include a special task or a
> do_install_append() part that
> will remove specified .la files. (like ${libdir}/xorg/modules/*/.la,
> ${libdir}/matchbox-panel/*.la, etc.). I see this usually done in
> do_install or in special do_install_append
> parts, but I think it would be better to handle this globally.

I think the simple append to the recipes concerned is just as simple as
any addition to core classes to try and do this generically...

Cheers,

Richard