[poky] [patch] autotools: Remove .la files by default

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> So no, I'm not going to merge this patch at this time. If we were going
> to do something like this I'd rather thrown out libtool entirely and
> switch to something like dolt.

Would you take an option, off by default then?  I definitely do not
want these files in my OS; I could remove them in a
ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND, but it'd be even better to do in after
each build.

> Also note in your gnome shell link above that its listed as required
> because of "the dirty hacks that jhbuild plays to get it to sandbox your
> system" which is hardly a glowing recommendation. We don't have this
> problem.

The core problem arises in that often for developers it's convenient
to do partial builds; say only rebuild glib and gtk+, but not rebuild
pango (which lies between them).  What the libtool pango.la file does
is add -L/usr/lib which is 1) unnecessary and 2) forces the linker
search first in /usr/lib instead of /opt/gnome like we want.