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

[Vikram Narayanan]

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 May 2012 18:06:37 +0530, Vikram Narayanan <vikram186 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> They served some purpose, but nowadays, they are more harmful than
> anything. pkg-config is a lot better.
>
> They are definitely totally useless for plugins.
>
> Most Linux distributions remove them.

Even I wish not to have those inside my lib directories. But have to
wait till .la is totally dead. :)

~Vikram