Bug 170031 - expat: please omit *.la files, static libs
Summary: expat: please omit *.la files, static libs
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: expat
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Joe Orton
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-10-06 17:43 UTC by Rex Dieter
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 1.95.8-7
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Last Closed: 2006-01-30 16:24:45 UTC
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Description Rex Dieter 2005-10-06 17:43:50 UTC
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 17:47:37 UTC
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 17:49:53 UTC
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 16:24:45 UTC
libexpat.la dumped, libexpat.a is probably needed for statically-linked RPM still.


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