[th/rpm] R: libtool(*.la) - good or bad

[Jeff Johnson]

On Nov 26, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:

> On Saturday 25 November 2006 00:35, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
>> On Saturday 25 November 2006 00:10, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
>>> On Thursday 23 November 2006 22:26, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
>>>
>>> http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SOURCES/file-offset.patch? 
>>> rev=1.1
>>
>> More hacky but better :)
>> http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SOURCES/file-offset.patch? 
>> rev=1.2
>
> Of course there are still problems.
>
>  libdb.la symlink to real file libdb-4.5.la
>
> Now other packages get R: libtool(libdb.la) but nothing provides it  
> since it's
> not detected.
>
> Wouldn't be it better to generate Requires: /usr/lib/file.la  
> instead of
> libtool(/usr/lib/file.la) ? That way we wouldn't need to rebuild  
> all packages
> containing .la files.
>

The intent is to isolate libtool dependencies within a "libtool(...)"  
name space
so that libtool dependencies can be checked independently of other  
dependencies.

But sure, dependencies are just strings, just like file paths ;-)

73 de Jeff