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

[Vikram Narayanan]

On 5/4/2012 1:33 AM, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Vikram Narayanan<vikram186 at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> >  Hello Peter,
>> >
>> >  On 5/3/2012 11:36 PM, Peter Tap wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>  Thank you for your help,
>>> >>
>>> >>  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.
> .la files are a madness added by libtool/automake.  They serve no useful
> purpose whatsoever.

I agree that is it's a madness caused by libtool/automake.
But the statement "they serve no useful purpose" is subjective. I've had 
many compilation errors due to missing la files.

~Vikram