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

[Phil Blundell]

On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 11:11 -0700, Tom Rini 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.

Well, the point about these particular .la files is that they relate to
dlopen()ed modules, not to shared libraries that one would wish to link
against.  So the "defined purpose" doesn't apply to this situation.

I don't think the files in question are broken, just useless.  It seems
silly to waste space in the -dev package with them.

p.