[OE-core] [RFC PATCH] autotools: Don't install .la files if the distro doesn't want them

[Burton, Ross]

On 17 October 2012 14:42, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> It's not obvious that libtool's .la files serve any very useful purpose
> on a modern system and they can be positively vexatious under some
> circumstances.  Make installation of this stuff conditional on the new
> "libtool-garbage" flag in DISTRO_FEATURES and backfill it for existing
> distros.

Hooray!

> Also, perform at least a perfunctory cleaning of unified build directories
> when reconfiguring since many packages don't have the right dependency
> rules to cause a recompile when this happens.  Making distclean is not
> practical since many packages either don't support it at all, or remove
> too much (e.g. polkit blows away its documentation which causes the
> subsequent license check to fail).

Would you consider splitting this into a separate commit?

Ross