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[RFC] Removing .la files from x86


Libtool .la files are generally a waste of time and space. They slow down linking of other libraries with libtool, and they cause otherwise unnecessary private dependencies to be pulled in by -devel packages. Therefore, the major distros generally remove them from their packages unless they are really necessary.

When we first enabled Cygwin for x86_64, as we had no backwards compatibility to worry about, I made removing all .la files the default. AFAIK this has worked well, and any missing link libraries that the presence thereof would have masked have already been fixed.

In order to do the same for x86 without breaking builds of other packages, AFAICS we would need a perpetual postinstall script which will continually remove them. The downside is that (unless the script is made a *LOT* more complicated) a number of -devel packages will show up as "Incomplete" until such time they are rebuilt with a new version of cygport.

Any objections?

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Yaakov


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