file 4.18 vs libtool dependencies autodetection

[Tomasz Wittner]

On Tue 14. November 2006 01:40, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> 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?
Is any profit of not disabling them? IMO generating libtool(libfoo.la) P/R 
should be disabled. We could have lived without them till now, we can live 
further. ;)
> 
> 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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Tomasz Wittner