I am unsure why are they needed... at least on Fedora they are able to remove them: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/unixODBC.git/tree/unixODBC.spec # we do not want to ship static libraries rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/*.a # remove unpackaged files from the buildroot rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/*.la rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/libltdl.* rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/libtool Thanks
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