Re: [PATCH] Don't install .la files when --no-la-files is used

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Russ,

* Russ Allbery wrote on Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:20:28AM CET:
> The most frequent problem caused by *.la files is that they add a pile of
> unnecessary dependencies to shared libraries, which further entangles
> package dependencies and makes upgrades unnecessarily hard.  (This is the
> long-standing problem of including all dependencies required for static
> libraries, which aren't needed for shared libraries on systems that handle
> transitive dependency closures when loading shared libraries.)

Which is nicely solved with --as-needed, as long as you don't need to
stick in extra, seemingly-unneeded library dependencies that only become
useful for dlopen'ed modules.  Since the latter isn't portable anyway
(those modules should have linked against said libraries), it's best to
avoid this situation if possible.

Cheers,
Ralf