Bug 357291

Summary:	Request for automatically fixing .la errors
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tiago Marques <bugs>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tiago Marques 2011-03-04 01:39:55 UTC

Hello,

A recent plague of problems have showed up from the removal of .la files and lack of running "lafilefixer --justfixit" after merging the new package, like dbus.
I propose that all packages, like dbus, that are know to break other packages by this move should automatically run "lafilefixer --justfixit" after the package been merged to avoid further headaches to Gentoo users.
Is there anything stopping this? From what I've read here I saw nothing.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Azamat H. Hackimov 2011-03-04 10:22:26 UTC

You can use FEATURES="fixlafiles" to avoid these problems.

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-03-04 15:42:12 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 271129 ***

Comment 3 Tiago Marques 2011-03-04 15:56:51 UTC

Right, so why is this burden being put on the users, if this is a recurrent situation? I'm just asking for more granularity here. If I use that feature, will it try to fix them everytime, even when not needed?

Best regards