357291 – Request for automatically fixing .la errors

Bug 357291 - Request for automatically fixing .la errors

Summary: Request for automatically fixing .la errors

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 271129

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2011-03-04 01:39 UTC by Tiago Marques
Modified:	2011-03-04 15:56 UTC (History)
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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