[oe] [PATCH 3/6] xorg-xserver-common.inc: drop .la files from packages

[Otavio Salvador]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 15:11, Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com> wrote:
> On 04/09/2011 10:36 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 06:19, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
>>> What would be the use case for having them there?  Nothing ever links
>>> against them.  I think Otavio is right, they're better off deleted.
>>
>> AFAIK .la files are used for in project linking not when linking with
>> system or sdk libraries. So I'd prefer to remove them.
>
> .la files have a defined purpose in a development area.  Until / unless
> we move to globally killing .la files (see Richard talking about this on
> the poky list a few weeks ago), we should ship these in the -dev
> package.  If they're broken that probably means something isn't
> inherit'ing the right class that should be fixing them.

Mind to point me some reference about this topic?

For me it doesn't matter et all but I want do not ship those into
regular packages et all.

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