On 5/16/07, Essien Ita Essien 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

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:

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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