Changeset c2863e6 for chapter05/stripping.xml

Timestamp:

04/19/2020 08:14:10 AM (4 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

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Children:

924667e

Parents:

a5dddcb

Message:

Add remarks about .la files telling that they are potentially harmful

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11815 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter05/stripping.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter05/stripping.xml

@@ -32 +32 @@
 <screen><userinput>rm -rf /tools/{,share}/{info,man,doc}</userinput></screen>
 
-  <para>Remove unneeded files:</para>
+  <para>The libtool .la files are only useful when linking with static
+  libraries. They are unneeded, and potentially harmful, when using dynamic
+  shared libraries, specially when using also non-autotools build systems.
+  Remove those files now:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>find /tools/{lib,libexec} -name \*.la -delete</userinput></screen>