[csw-maintainers] [csw-buildfarm] FYI: Temporarily deactivation .la-files

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 22.01.2009 um 20:10 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
> Chad Harp <harpchad at opencsw.org> writes:
>
>> Cleaning this up is probably going to be painful, maybe someone has  
>> some
>> libtool magic to make it build around these situations?
>
> I understand your issue. Maybe a temporary solution is to modify the
> .la files on the build farm to correct the issues and, when there is
> no more soiled .la files we can revert to a normal operation.

Unfortunately this is not sufficient. The old packages itself
either need to be updated or modified. We could repackage the
old packages without .la-files if necessary.

> Isn't this a good candidate for a February topic for William's list?
> i.e., "get rid of cruft in .la files"

Yes. This can be done under "bug squashing".


Best regards

   -- Dago