Bug 183367

Summary: gphoto2: remove .la files
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Component: gphoto2Assignee: Radek Vokál <rvokal>
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Description Rex Dieter 2006-02-28 17:23:29 UTC 
Main problem is that gphoto2-devel-2.1.99-5.2's /usr/lib/libgphoto2.la contains:
dependency_libs=' /usr/lib/libgphoto2_port.la /usr/lib/libltdl.la -ldl -lexif -lm'
but doesn't
Requires: libtool-ltdl-devel

IMHO, the best solution to avoid the libtool madness is simply to drop all
%{_libdir}/lib*.la
from the gphoto2 packaging.  You could then (theoretically) remove the
Requires: libexif-devel 
too, provided that gphoto2's headers don't reference anything from libexif-devel
(and I'm pretty sure they don't).
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2006-02-28 18:36:47 UTC 
Looks like the libexif-devel thing was added due to libtool bloat as well (bug
#135058).

A slightly less obtrusive step than removing the .la files altogether would be
to simply strip out the offending bits from the .la files, using something like:
sed -i -e "s|/usr/lib/libltdl.la||" $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/lib*.la
sed -i -e "s|-lexif||" $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/lib*.la
Comment 2 Radek Vokál 2006-03-02 07:48:06 UTC 
The .la files should be gone, I've realized there's a small typo in the specfile
which doesn't remove the following file. If kipi-plugins doesn't depend on .la
files I fix that in next rawhide update.