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

[Philip Brown]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:12:45PM +0100, Peter FELECAN wrote:
> Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> writes:
> >
> > We HAVE a global policy.
> 
> Which is?...


http://www.opencsw.org/standards/build

"New packages should take care to EXCLUDE libtool .la files.  [...]
 Unfortunately, existing packages may need to preserve them, until all
 dependant packages have their own configs adjusted to not use .la files."

And this global policy, has been "implemented" in GAR already, for many
months.