[PATCH]: creating la files also for static libraries

[Thiago Macieira]

Ralf Habacker wrote:
>because bksys/scons can't detect, if the relating library is a shared or
> a static library. For the dependency check it isn't real required to
> know if this is a shared or static library. It is important to have a
> general file which tell us if the requested library is there and/or
> outdated. For shared libraries this is already available by the
> relating la file. Only for static libraries this file is left.

How about we don't generate .la files for anything at all?

As I said some time ago, the only purpose I see for them is to track the 
dependencies from static libraries, which is a usecase I'd rather not see 
in KDE.

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