Bug 401739 – autotools-utils.eclass should detect .la files in plugin directories

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2012-02-01 07:54:18 UTC]

If the la file is in a plugin dir, it is not correctly detected. The static lib is removed correctly

 * Removing unnecessary /usr/share/opt/google/chrome/resources/zeitgeist_plugin/plugin/libzeitgeist-npapi-plugin.a

...

/var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/zeitgeist-datasources-0.8.0.1/image/usr/share/opt/google/chrome/resources/zeitgeist_plugin/plugin
/var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/zeitgeist-datasources-0.8.0.1/image/usr/share/opt/google/chrome/resources/zeitgeist_plugin/plugin/libzeitgeist-npapi-plugin.so
/var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/zeitgeist-datasources-0.8.0.1/image/usr/share/opt/google/chrome/resources/zeitgeist_plugin/plugin/libzeitgeist-npapi-plugin.la

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-02-01 15:18:45 UTC]

Um?

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-02-01 15:20:42 UTC]

Er, /usr/share/opt? What's that? *nm*

[Comment 3 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2012-02-01 15:26:12 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Er, /usr/share/opt? What's that? *nm*

That was why I was writing the ebuild. Some path had to be corrected. Nevertheless the static archive was removed but the la file not.

[Comment 4 Michał Górny 2012-02-01 16:09:39 UTC]

And how can it know which plugin loaders use .la files and which do not?

[Comment 5 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2012-02-01 16:11:19 UTC]

Does any use la files? I thought it is only need for linking.

[Comment 6 Maciej Mrozowski 2012-02-02 00:15:06 UTC]

Unfortunately some obscure software may still need .la files for loading plugins at runtime. imagemagick being one example.

[Comment 7 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2012-02-02 07:29:59 UTC]

I thought, plugin loaders never need la files. But I was obviously wrong. And as I am against a bunch of special variables to trigger specific actions for individual loader, I would suggest to leave this cleaning to the ebuild maintainers. Thanks guys, -> invalid.