Bug#474891: Processed: Re: Bug#474891: asc: FTBFS: libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libspeex.la' or unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libspeex.la'

[Cyril Brulebois]

On 08/04/2008, Ron wrote:
> I'm punting this one back to the asc developers, its build system
> should be fixed to use a simple -lspeex instead of trying to do the
> .la dance even when such a file is not present.  If you really want a
> convoluted way to get '-lspeex', pkg-config is also supported, but
> it's entirely unnecessary for a library as simple in its dependencies
> as this one is.

Yep, indeed. I initially planned to work on this bug yesterday, but
dist-upgrading was taking ages, and someone else reassigned the bug
before I could give it a try.

> Including the .la files with the Debian packages provides no practical
> gain and a whole new dimension of ways that things can 'accidentally'
> get screwed up by them.  I'm sorry that removing them broke your
> package, but that bit wasn't accidental, so I think we should consider
> this a lint check and fix asc in this case.

I've also removed some .la files from some other packages, and I guess
it's quite a good idea to try and rebuild reverse B-D to see which
break, so as to be able to issue an advanced warning to the other
maintainers. That's at least what I did for graphviz, and what I plan to
do for the next upstream release of libgphoto2, for example.

Cheers,

-- 
Cyril Brulebois
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