[OE-core] RFC: magic libtool .la removal

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 15:56 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:

> I also remember discussion with Colin Walters about ostree, which at
> one point only removed from $libdir itself (my "libdir" argument) but
> now removes all .la files.  Colin, the commit that changed the la
> killing to recurse didn't have a rationale - can you clarify this?  If
> ostree can get away with removing all, them maybe we don't need the
> "libdir" option at all.

The relevant data I have on hand are:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654013
https://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/commit/?id=965c8d5ceda9d1c5d6021ef2c534e0a7f68ca976

I think the executive summary is that libltdl knows how to load .so
files directly (at least currently), so there's no reason to have even
${libdir}/modulename/plugins/foo.la.