Bug 70379

Summary:	.la files considered harmful
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Component:	kdelibs	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
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Description Owen Taylor 2002-07-31 22:04:20 UTC

E.g., the version of libkdeui.la I have here has:

# Libraries that this one depends upon.
dependency_libs=' -R/usr/lib/qt-3.0.4/lib -R/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib/libkdecore.la -L/usr/lib/qt-3.0.4/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.1
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.1/../../.. /usr/lib/libDCOP.la -ldl
-lXinerama /usr/lib/libkdefx.la -lstdc++ -lqt-mt -lpng -lz -lXext -lX11 -lresolv
-lSM -lICE -lpthread -lXrender
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.1/libstdc++.la -lm -lc -lgcc_s'

So, you upgrade to qt-3.0.5 and you have to upgrade kdelibs as well.

What we did GTK+ ,GNOME, libstdc++ was simply not put any .la files in the
packages; note that you can only do this when breaking binary compat,
since .la files depending on the library will have explicit references
to the .la file of the library.

Comment 1 Ngo Than 2002-08-02 07:38:55 UTC

oh yes, i rebuild 3.0.2-3 against qt 3.0.5. thanks

Comment 2 Jay Turner 2002-08-28 19:50:03 UTC

Not sure that I quite understand what the fix was here, but I'm still seeing .la
files in the kdelibs-3.0.3-6 package.  Is this fixed, or still in need of some help?

Comment 3 Than Ngo 2004-09-14 09:12:43 UTC

kde needs .la files for loading plugins and are needed.