[csw-maintainers] policy on .la files?

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Sat Dec 13 15:34:11 CET 2008


Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> Am 13.12.2008 um 02:11 schrieb Ben Walton:
>> Is there a policy (or even a strong preference) on whether or not to
>> ship the libtool .la files with a package?
>
> The OpenCSW standard says to exclude .la files. I just had
> a lively discussion with Phil wheter to change that and
> include .la-files again. If you have hard technical facts
> why to include them I would be interested to hear them.

It helps the libtool job, consequently I think that it's a good thing
to include them.

-- 
Peter



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