I was seeing that qtcore package (and probably others) are installing .la files As the way of packaging qt is a bit different than in Fedora, I have failed to know if they are able to live without .la files... but I have found this: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/qt5-qtbase.git/tree/qt5-qtbase.spec It seems they are running "some magic" with .la files and .prl files... I am not sure if that logic could be useful for us... but for letting you to know :/ (and also for me learning a bit more about how QT is built...) ## .prl/.la file love # nuke .prl reference(s) to %%buildroot, excessive (.la-like) libs pushd %{buildroot}%{_qt5_libdir} for prl_file in libQt5*.prl ; do sed -i -e "/^QMAKE_PRL_BUILD_DIR/d" ${prl_file} if [ -f "$(basename ${prl_file} .prl).so" ]; then rm -fv "$(basename ${prl_file} .prl).la" sed -i -e "/^QMAKE_PRL_LIBS/d" ${prl_file} fi done popd Thanks
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #0) > I was seeing that qtcore package (and probably others) are installing .la > files Only for a subset of static archives (on my system I have only 3 .la files installed by qt5), the rest are removed by prune_libtool_files. > As the way of packaging qt is a bit different than in Fedora, I have failed > to know if they are able to live without .la files... but I have found this: > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/qt5-qtbase.git/tree/qt5-qtbase.spec > > It seems they are running "some magic" with .la files and .prl files... I am > not sure if that logic could be useful for us... but for letting you to know > :/ (and also for me learning a bit more about how QT is built...) > > ## .prl/.la file love > # nuke .prl reference(s) to %%buildroot, excessive (.la-like) libs > pushd %{buildroot}%{_qt5_libdir} > for prl_file in libQt5*.prl ; do > sed -i -e "/^QMAKE_PRL_BUILD_DIR/d" ${prl_file} That has been there forever and never caused any problems, so I don't see a reason to sed it out... > if [ -f "$(basename ${prl_file} .prl).so" ]; then > rm -fv "$(basename ${prl_file} .prl).la" This is handled by prune_libtool_files in qt5-build.eclass. > sed -i -e "/^QMAKE_PRL_LIBS/d" ${prl_file} I have no idea why they're doing this. > fi > done > popd > > > Thanks Are you experiencing any issues from .la files?
No, I was having issues with other .la files, then, I tried to get them solved and, additionally, I was checking all the pending .la files to ensure they weren't forgotten (in most cases that .la files were present because people forget to call prune_libtool_files as, sadly, that needs to be done manually :/) Feel free to close if the present .la files are expected :)
