[PATCH]: creating la files also for static libraries

[Thiago Macieira]

Jarosław Staniek wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Would be fine for me too. BTW, do you also think about removing
> requirement for .la files in libltdl? In case of kdelibs3 ("qmake"
> times) I was just copying .la files to win32 partition to make sure
> KTrader can find KDE services. Maybe, in that case, .desktop files are
> enough.

libltdl should be able to find the modules without the .la files, I hope.

KTrader should have a compile-time constant that sets the platform-defined 
suffix for loadable modules (dll, so, dylib, etc.), so that it can check 
whether the file pointed to by a .desktop file actually exists.

Aside from that, the .la files are a convenience for the build system, in 
that they can check for a library's existence by verifying that the .la 
file exists: in that case, we could have empty .la files just to tag, but 
I wouldn't want them to be installed or have any content.

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