Bug 411375 – Request documentation about libtool archive (.la)

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Documentation

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2012-04-09 18:15:29 UTC]

As per comment 2 in bug 411143:

When base-system can agree on how exactly static-libs is supposed to work, let me know.

Seems there isn't any official doc about it.



From irc:

20:05 <@ssuominen> ago: I believe Diego has offered help with creating such doc multiple times but noone has volunteered for the job. I, in particular, suck with docs so I'll do same as Diego, offer help to clarify things if required, but not write the actual doc

I guess those links could help.

http://blog.flameeyes.eu/tag/lafiles
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/tag/libtool

[Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) 2012-04-10 00:36:26 UTC]

we do end-user docs, not developer docs. that said, if someone else wants to write one, we can help edit it -- check the XML, grammar, phrasing, that sort of thing, but the subject is not something we really do, as we don't have experience with package maintenance.

if the folks in charge of libtool get a written draft, feel free to CC us and we can take a look and help as needed.

[Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2012-04-10 17:29:11 UTC]

I'm interested in learning about these things (especially after reading Diego's blog posts ;-) I'll see if I can help out here as well

[Comment 3 Matthew Marchese 2015-12-09 18:53:55 UTC]

Any movement on this bug, @SwifT?

[Comment 4 Michał Górny 2016-06-16 12:17:54 UTC]

I'd say this is something for devmanual.

[Comment 5 Sam James 2022-03-16 02:42:18 UTC]

FWIW, we do have:
- https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/installed-files.html#pg0303
- https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Handling_Libtool_Archives