[pacman-dev] .la files are back?

Essien Ita Essien

16 May 2007 16 May '07

12:17 p.m.

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. Wasn't there much-ado-about-la-files sometime last year? Just checking, Essien

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Roman Kyrylych

16 May 16 May

12:26 p.m.

2007/5/16, Essien Ita Essien :

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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.

Wasn't there much-ado-about-la-files sometime last year?

Most packages have options=('nolibtool') now (it will be !libtool with time). It was decided that makepkg3 default options should stay the same as makepkg2. This was done for compatability. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

Essien Ita Essien

12:31 p.m.

Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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2007/5/16, Essien Ita Essien :

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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.

Wasn't there much-ado-about-la-files sometime last year?

Most packages have options=('nolibtool') now (it will be !libtool with time). It was decided that makepkg3 default options should stay the same as makepkg2. This was done for compatability.

ok... thnx. cheers, Essien

Georg Grabler

1:57 p.m.

Good to know this information. I'll keep it in mind that the !libtool isn't default, and explicitely add it to packages which seem to use libtools. Thanks, Georg On 5/16/07, Essien Ita Essien wrote:

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Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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2007/5/16, Essien Ita Essien :

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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.

Wasn't there much-ado-about-la-files sometime last year?

Most packages have options=('nolibtool') now (it will be !libtool with time). It was decided that makepkg3 default options should stay the same as makepkg2. This was done for compatability.

ok... thnx.

cheers, Essien

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Aaron Griffin

3:59 p.m.

On 5/16/07, Georg Grabler wrote:

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Good to know this information. I'll keep it in mind that the !libtool isn't default, and explicitely add it to packages which seem to use libtools.

This will most likely be change in the future, to an opt-in policy. It will require changes for KDE packages and possibly a few more. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7127

bardo

12:30 p.m.

On 5/16/07, Essien Ita Essien wrote:

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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

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