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

[Peter FELECAN]

Eric J Korpela <korpela at opencsw.org> writes:

> In some cases I'm having the opposite problem because of missing
> dependencies that were supposed to be in the .la files of packages
> where the .la files were not installed.
>
> Shouldn't problems in .la files be reported as bugs to the package
> maintainers?  If a package includes them it's up the the maintainers
> to see that they are correct, no?

Indeed, the .la files *are* useful and not having them is a pain... If
the paths in the .la files are incorrect it *is* a bug and *must* be
corrected.

BTW, moving the .la files as you have done can be disruptive for
activities of other maintainers and, IMHO should be done on a test
system.

my 8.5*10^12 cents --- and growing
-- 
Peter