[OE-core] [PATCH 2/4] xorg-driver-common: Add configure and install appends from meta-intel

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Thu Sep 5 16:23:53 UTC 2013


On 5 September 2013 16:32, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> I guess the .la files just don't seem to be a big issue that some people
> seem to paint them as. Why do we need to remove them and deviate from
> the upstream?

You appear to be defending choices made by libtool upstream here.  Are
you unwell? :)

> Anyhow, if someone can show some world builds with and without the .la
> files and see what build history shows we'd be closer to taking a patch
> to turning them off. If we do it, we'll have to do it everywhere for
> everything since the remaining code will bitrot badly IMO otherwise.

I'll try and hack something up this week as a proof of concept.

Ross



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