Re: [pacman-dev] .la files are back?

On 5/16/07, Essien Ita Essien <me@essienitaessien.com> wrote:

Just updated to pacman 3 and looking thru makepkg.conf, I see that the *default* in the OPTIONS() array is to leave libtool .la files in the package.

That's because some packages need them to work properly. Most of the packages don't even produce .la files anymore, so if you're maintaining one of the few that do produce unnecessary files you should specify !libtool by yourself in your PKGBUILD. Setting it in makepkg.conf is dangerous, because you could get non-working packages without even knowing. bardo