[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.0-rc5

[Peter O'Gorman]

Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> I'd like to let you all know about another release candidate for 2.3.0:

Thanks. I have not downloaded it but want to comment on:

> no longer shipping libtool archive files /usr/X11/lib/*.la
> 

I am not sure that this is a good idea. Anyone who has built libraries
with libtool that depend on X libs may have .la files that contain the
path to /usr/X11/lib/libfoo.la, future use of those libraries when
linking with libtool will result in error.

Also, most users already have .la files in /usr/X11/lib, does this
update remove them? If not the .la files that remain may point at the
wrong (non-existent) libraries, which will result in error.

Surely, just shipping up-to-date .la files is a more appropriate solution?

Some distros do not ship .la files if they can possibly avoid it, and
that is understandable, installed .la files have some rather serious
issues, but is removing them in a minor update like this really advisable?

Peter
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