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From: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi,

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:21:50PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
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> what is the policy on libtool .la files? Do we install them or do we try
> to avoid them whenever possible? It seems libtool is smart enough to
> figure the link path by itself even when the .la file is missing, as
> long as the libraries are in a somewhat standard search path.

You can find info about it at http://freebsd.rambler.ru/

There were many argues about it.

-Kirill

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