Re: svn commit: r30574 - trunk/build/ac-macros

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 07:45:29PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote:
> > Linking against libneon.la doesn't cause these problems.
>
> Right - doing anything else is wrong. This change is not necessary for
> any released version of neon, so I can only presume it's to work around
> the broken Debian packaging of neon? If so it's certainly a bad idea;
> tolerating bad packaging behaviour just encourages it. Just get people
> to complain to Debian about the broken packaging, it will give them more
> motivation to fix it.

I'm confused. FreeBSD seems to not install .la files at all[1].

You are saying this is wrong. So does the Debian packaging policy[2].

Yet this neon.m4 patch was made because of an error building on Debian!

I don't know what the correct thing to do is, but it seems strange that
there are so deeply contradicting opinions on the issue.

[1]: There are no .la files on my FreeBSD-7 system, and this post
     implies that they skip them intentionally:
     http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-ports&m=110295739806911&w=2
[2]: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-libraries

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