Bug#532690: [Openal-devel] ALURE 1.0 Debian packages

[Andres Mejia]

On Wednesday 17 June 2009 13:44:28 Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com> writes:
> > What headaches? Forgive my lack of imagination here. Right now I don't
> > see a reason why static libraries should be removed.
>
> I'm not for removing, I'm more for not introducing them in the first
> place.
>
> Recent problem (fail to find the bugno, sry), libjack-dev used to ship a
> .la file, which has been dropped. Other libraries that can use jack
> still referenced the jack.la in their own .la fail, which rendered
> application to FTBFS. Solution: recompile the intermediate libraries to
> drop the reference .la file.
>
> As said, aybe I'm really just overexaggerating here and try to be too
> cautious. alure seems a really small library with rather few users, so
> it probably doesn't matter here.

ALURE doesn't even provide those libtool files, only a shared library and static 
library.

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Regards,
Andres