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

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Tue Jun 18 15:05:41 UTC 2013


On 18 June 2013 16:00, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Colin.  Let's ignore the "libdir" option so this is a
per-package keep-or-wipe option.  I'd like to default it to removing
all by default after a verification that the build results are
identical.

Ross



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