Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 183367
gphoto2: remove .la files
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:25 EST
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).
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
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.