From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Removing .la files from x86
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23ce439c-0cac-d47a-2b76-7ed66c151cd4@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <062647ee-734c-d868-589b-a5d32c6d4515@gmail.com>
On 2016-08-03 04:18, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 03/08/2016 10:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Aug 2 22:09, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>>> Any objections?
>>
>> User confusion about incomplete packages?
That is my concern, although we are generally dealing with -devel
packages here. AFAICS the only way to work around that is to make the
script much more complicated (and hence slower).
>> What I wonder is, if cygport builds don't create/install .la files
>> anymore, don't we end up without them at one point anyway? Isn't it
>> sufficient if they go away over time?
The problem with that approach is that it would have to be done in a
top-down order, otherwise builds of other packages would break. For
example, libFLAC.la (from flac-devel) requires libogg.la (from
libogg-devel). If libogg.la is removed by rebuilding libogg with a new
cygport but libFLAC.la is not, then any libtool-based packages which
link with -lFLAC will fail because of the missing libogg.la mentioned
therein. Hence, the only way not to break things once they're there is
to either remove them from the top-down (mass rebuild), or all at once
(a perpetual postinstall).
> Please note we have still some *.la files on x86_64
> for other reasons and we can not run an indiscriminate prune
> on x86.
I know. :-) The modules that are kept on x86_64 would be left alone by
the script.
--
Yaakov
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-03 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-03 3:11 Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-08-03 4:16 ` Warren Young
2016-08-03 8:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-08-03 9:19 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-08-03 15:58 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
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