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

[Dan Nicholson]

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I feel like today I just watched the movie "Groundhog Day" another 20 times.
>  This topic re-emerges just as often as the one about whether list replies
> should default to the original sender, or to the list.
>
> It seems that there is an issue for Linux distribution maintainers. What
> needs to be done about it so that this topic does not come up so often?

I haven't followed the topic for that long, but it think this is that
patch Debian uses which many other distros have picked up:

http://patches.ubuntu.com/libt/libtool/extracted/link_all_deplibs.patch
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/libtool/current/SOURCES/libtool-1.5.24-link_all_deplibs.patch?view=markup

So, what would it take to get something like that upstream? Obviously,
it would first have to be ported to 2.2. Then, it seems to me that it
should probably use a feature test rather than a platform glob. I
think Ralf called this transitive dependency closures.

--
Dan