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

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> I can do better than that, we have some limitations in the way .conf
> files are parsed compared to .bbclass files. If you create a
> "localchanges.bbclass" containing:

Of course I can code it locally, but I think this mechanism would be
of value to other people creating systems, and hence my proposal to do
it upstream.

> and then do INHERIT += "localchanges"

This appears to work, thanks.

> Right, but with our build environment, this really becomes a non-issue

I agree it's a non-issue for building the OS.  But it will be an issue
for people who *after* having the OS installed, want to temporarily
override system libraries with other versions.   And there's just no
sane way to fix it without just nuking the files from the OS.

> (and I've been trying to get patches upstream which stop -L/usr/lib
> being injected anyway as that is a libtool bug).

I think a better fix would actually be an automake option to stop it
from even installing them, and I looked into this (it's not trivial,
and effectively requires disabling "make uninstall"), and even if the
fix landed every project would have to be updated for it.