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

[Kay Sievers]

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no> wrote:
> ]] Tom Gundersen
>
>> This was what the old nss-myhostname did. Lennart: any good reason to
>> exclude the .la or should nss-myhostname be treated the same as the
>> other libs?

Do the same for the rest of them. We can decide later where we want to
delete them.

> .la files are only useful for static linking.  statically linking
> nss-myhostname doesn't make any kind of sense.
>
> (I hold that static linking in general is a bad idea and .la files
> should just go away entirely on Linux, but this is not a universally
> held opinion.)

They are pretty useless, yes.

Fedora deletes all of them in the spec file:
  http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/systemd.git/tree/systemd.spec#n210

Kay