[oe] [RFC] Delete all .la files?

[Koen Kooi]

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Op 23-12-15 om 22:41 schreef Burton, Ross:
> Hi,
> 
> So I've just done an oe-core world build with my latest .la-killer class 
> enabled ( 
> https://github.com/rossburton/meta-ross/blob/master/classes/wipe-la.bbclass)
>
> 
and the results are pretty good.  Basically this class hooks onto
> do_install and simply deletes every *.la file it can find in ${D}, with
> an opt-out if required.  .la files can cause rebuild problems if
> directories move around and are mostly pointless on Linux anyway, so they
> can just be deleted.
> 
> One recipe (opensp-native) needs to opt out of the .la deletion as 
> openjade-native for <redacted> reasons explicitly expects .la files to
> be installed.  Some other desktop distros already strip out .la files so
> I wouldn't be surprised if there's a patch floating around to solve
> this.
> 
> One recipe fails to build (gcc-sanitizers) as it expects to have built
> its own libstdc++ so the recipe just deletes the source and drops in
> symlinks to the libraries in the sysroot.  Works, but is nasty.   I could
> either opt gcc out of la removal, or improve the fixup to make it
> actually link to the installed libraries.  Or, merge the sanitisers into
> the main gcc recipe, as I can't recall why they're separate anyway.
> 
> Apart from that, my world build was successful.
> 
> So in the new year I plan on submitting a renamed version of this class
> to oe-core and adding it to INHERIT_DISTRO.  Any comments?

Go ahead, .la files need to go away in the OE world. I wish your class had
an option to kill them with fire, but alas.

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