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Bug 170646 - broken .la files included
Summary: broken .la files included
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: synce
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andreas Bierfert
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: FE5Target
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-10-13 14:50 UTC by Pierre Ossman
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 0.9.1-4
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-11-28 20:52:17 UTC
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Description Pierre Ossman 2005-10-13 14:50:15 UTC 
The synce-devel package isn't stripped of .la files. This causes havoc when
trying to link applications to synce.
Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2005-10-13 16:42:28 UTC 
The initial bug report is misleading. The truth is that the libtool
archives contain _broken content_ (buildroot paths inside the dependencies)
and hence cause problems.
Comment 2 Pierre Ossman 2005-10-13 19:06:22 UTC 
Actually, the big problem was that they caused libtool to add -lmimedir. I could
not find this lib anywhere in FC and removing the .la files showed that it was
also completely unnecessary.

I thought the general consesus was that *.la should be removed from all packages
because the cause more problems than they solve?
Comment 3 Michael Schwendt 2005-10-13 19:26:11 UTC 
There is no such "general consensus" with regard to libtool archives.
But yes, in many cases they only cause problems and are not needed.
Comment 4 Andreas Bierfert 2005-10-14 11:39:40 UTC 
just got back vacations will look into it asap
Comment 5 Andreas Bierfert 2005-11-28 20:52:17 UTC 
This should be fixed in the current version...
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