Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 174261
popt must not include .la file or be split in popt and popt-devel
Last modified: 2011-09-21 13:25:48 EDT
Hi, I hit a build problem on x86_64 with some sw I'm trying to package. The real problem is in the sw but I noticed that the popt.i386 package also installs libpopt.a libpopt.la and libpopt.so which are ofcourse completly unneeded on a multilib system where this package is not of the primary lib arch. Also isn't shipping .la files concidered not done/wanted in Fedora lately?
Further research has learned that the real problem is actually in the popt package. If libtool sees a .la file in both /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 it does funny things. When libtool gets passed -lpopt on a link command it passes /usr/lib/libpopt.so to gcc which of course is wrong on x86_64, it should be /usr/lib64/libpopt.so, or preferably just -lpopt Removing the .la file from /usr/lib fixes things for me. Luckily the buildsystem doesn't have this kinda troubles, still this needs fixing. Since a split would only save a few bytes I think that dropping the .la file will suffice.
Changed spec file to %exclude, will be pulled in when the next build of RPM for rawhide is done.
After rpm update I still see that files like librpm.la are having depedency on lipopt.la. Those should be also removed or excluded.
rpm-4.4.2-11
Glad to see the .la files finally removed, despite my report asking for the same thing (bug #145978) was marked WONTFIX.
*** Bug 145978 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
kdebase-4.6.5-2.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kdebase-4.6.5-2.fc14
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