[vlc-devel] Does VLC use .la files during runtime?

[Vikram Narayanan]

Hello Peter,

On 5/3/2012 11:36 PM, Peter Tap wrote:
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> Thank you for your help,
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> That is what I thought. What confused me is that "make install" copies these files into the install directory. This looks like a build bug.

No. I don't think it's a bug. The .la files are used during the linking 
phase. You can find many in your /usr/lib directory.

Regards,
Vikram

> Regards,
> Peter
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jean-Paul Saman<jpsaman at videolan.org>
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> Subject: Re: [vlc-devel] Does VLC use .la files during runtime?
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> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Peter Tap<ptrtap at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> Folks,
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>> When I run a "make install" on VLC build, I noticed that VLC copies .so as well as .la files in the install directory. Are .la files required for VLC to run?
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>> Thank you in advance for your help.
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> .la files are created by libtool and are not needed to run VLC.
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>> Peter
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> Kind regards,
>
> Jean-Paul Saman
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