file 4.18 vs libtool dependencies autodetection

Jakub Bogusz qboosh at pld-linux.org
Tue Nov 14 01:40:27 CET 2006


file 4.18 began to recognize libtool files (*.la):

/usr/lib/librpm.la: libtool library file
(instead of "ASCII English text" like before)

and it appears to enable libtool dependencies autodetection in rpm.
Should be use it or disable it?

If we decide to use it, then:
- all packages with *.la will require rebuild to generate Provides
- there will be needed some _noauto* in some cases:
  - when some *-devel contains more than one library, some of them
    have additional dependencies, but are rarely used (e.g. libwmf, flac)
  - in packages with ltdl-loaded plugins, which must have their *.la,
    but don't require *.la shared libraries they use


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