[ATrpms-devel] libmp3lame.a

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:28:15AM -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> On 1/17/07, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> >
> >On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:30:52PM -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> >> why libmp3lame.a is gone from the latest lame package?
> >
> >do you need it? Fedora/RHEL try to kill *.a and *.la, so I'm just
> >trying to blend in.
> 
> I am still using lame-devel-3.97-14.fc6.at.i386.rpm,
> which has it. That is why I noticed its absence only yesterday.
> freshrpms did the same, by the way.
> 
> When I was compiling darkice, I noticed that in FC5 lame was not being
> detected. Also, twolame and faac were never detected, either in FC5 or FC6.
> 
> The problem was that the Makefile was looking for the .a to detect the
> presence
> of a library. I had to patch it to make it look for the .so instead.
> 
> But I do not understand why removing the static version of a library will
> help anything. Just to avoid static linking?

Yes, that's Fedora's/RHEL's policy.

> Isn't it the right course sometimes?

Personally I agree. But I'm a bit tired to be confronted with "ATrpms
replaces this and that package and does it different than here and
there", so I'm trying tp give FUDders less to FUD about. But if it's
proper to keep *.a/*.la I would do so.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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