Re: no more *.la files in libgc-dev

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> skribis:

> On the GNU system, there is (somewhat ironically) no real advantage of
> having .la files that I know of

It’s needed at least when linking statically, because the .la file
contains dependency info not otherwise available (what pkg-config tries
to solve with ‘Libs.private’.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.