[systemd-devel] [PATCH 3/6] nss-myhostname: integrate into systemd buildsystem

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 03:14:42PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> On Sun, 06.01.13 10:46, Bryan Kadzban (bryan at kadzban.is-a-geek.net) wrote:
>> > On Linux the .la files are probably not necessary for shared libs, no --
>> > but using libtool to find them still is, if the code ever expects to
>> > compile on another system.  And not everyone has the systemd "all the
>> > world is Linux" viewpoint; some projects can't afford to be that
>> > fragmentary toward other Unix implementations.
>>
>> For systemd all the world is Linux, so there's really no point in
>> keeping any .la files around. systemd is not portable to non-Linux.
> I added a few rules to Makefile.am to remove the files after installation.
> Let's see how that works.

The buildsys itself seems to like the files. It at least breaks "make
distcheck" with pretty weird errors. I just reverted the patch for
now.

Maybe it isn't worth to do it in the buildsys, and we leave it to the
packagers, I'm not sure.

Thanks,
Kay