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

[Koen Kooi]

Op 29 mrt 2011, om 18:15 heeft Colin Walters het volgende geschreven:

> 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.

Isn't that why we have libtool sysroot support? Or does that break with the split you describe above?

regards,

Koen