Bug 170031 – expat: please omit *.la files, static libs

Bug 170031 - expat: please omit *.la files, static libs

Summary:	expat: please omit *.la files, static libs

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	expat (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Joe Orton
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2005-10-06 13:43 EDT by Rex Dieter
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Fixed In Version:	1.95.8-7
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Last Closed:	2006-01-30 11:24:45 EST
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Description Rex Dieter 2005-10-06 13:43:50 EDT

Please remove all %{_libdir}/lib*.la files and static libs from the -devel
package.  This will reduce libtool/library bloat.

Further, it will (mostly) solve the problem of needing to install
extreneous packages(2) in order to build anything that uses expat-devel.

(mostly Library) packages with .la files of their own that
BuildRequires: expat-devel
will need to be rebuilt after this modification.

If insist in still including the .la files (and static libraries), please
package them separately into something like expat-static or
expat-devel-static, so it would be possible to omit this extra crud in other
rpms that
BuildRequires: expat-devel
via
BuildConflicts: expat-devel-static

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2005-10-06 13:47:37 EDT

Ignore my (incorrect) second statement regarding extraneous packages.  In this
case, there aren't any, since expat doesn't link against anything else.

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2005-10-06 13:49:53 EDT

Upon further reflection (2) is partially correct, in that any other package
built using expat-devel, like subversion, if that package produces a -devel
package, it (the -devel) package will need a 
Requires: expat-devel
to account for the references to /usr/lib/libexpat.la in its own .la files.

Comment 3 Joe Orton 2006-01-30 11:24:45 EST

libexpat.la dumped, libexpat.a is probably needed for statically-linked RPM still.

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