There is two .la files in /usr/lib64/calf: # ls -la total 3672 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 30 14:06 . drwxr-xr-x 108 root root 135168 Mar 30 13:56 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 964 Mar 30 14:06 libcalf.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1136 Mar 30 14:06 libcalflv2gui.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1186648 Mar 30 14:06 libcalflv2gui.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2418432 Mar 30 14:06 libcalf.so Reproducible: Always
Are you sure they’re unneeded?
Yes, .la files are useless and should be deleted after compilation finished.
(In reply to Artem Ilgamov from comment #2) > Yes, .la files are useless and should be deleted after compilation finished. They aren’t *always* useless. Some media/sound software does still actually use it for plugins, which is why I asked…
(In reply to Sam James from comment #3) > They aren’t *always* useless. Some media/sound software does still actually > use it for plugins, which is why I asked… Can you provide example for application which may use .la files? I'm using calf plugins with media-sound/pulseeffects, it works perfectly without ones. By the way, last media-plugins/calf-0.90.3-r1 didn't installing .la files anymore.
(In reply to Artem Ilgamov from comment #4) > (In reply to Sam James from comment #3) > > They aren’t *always* useless. Some media/sound software does still actually > > use it for plugins, which is why I asked… > > Can you provide example for application which may use .la files? > I'm using calf plugins with media-sound/pulseeffects, it works perfectly > without ones. > > By the way, last media-plugins/calf-0.90.3-r1 didn't installing .la files > anymore. imagemagick finds plugins by looking for the equivalent .la file. Try removing .la files from imagemagick and seeing whether it still works.