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Bug 659078 - Accept .la files for --shared-library argument to g-ir-compiler
Accept .la files for --shared-library argument to g-ir-compiler
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gobject-introspection
Classification: Platform
Component: g-ir-compiler
2.29.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gobject-introspection Maintainer(s)
gobject-introspection Maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-09-14 18:06 UTC by Philip Withnall
Modified: 2017-05-05 10:13 UTC
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Description Philip Withnall 2011-09-14 18:06:22 UTC 
It would be useful if g-ir-compiler accepted .la files as input for its --shared-library argument and magically extracted the dlname out of them. This would save lots of copy–pasting of the same regexp between modules which use g-ir-compiler but not g-ir-scanner (such as Vala modules).

See bug #658002 and bug #585116/bug #642576.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2015-02-07 17:21:46 UTC 
[Mass-moving gobject-introspection tickets to its own Bugzilla product - see bug 708029. Mass-filter your bugmail for this message: introspection20150207 ]
Comment 2 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2017-05-04 21:30:21 UTC 
I think this has been fixed ages ago, through the magic of libtool.

If that's not the case, with the renewed push to switching to build systems that do not use that 19,000 lines shell script abomination, I think this is not going to be a good use of the scarce resources devoted to introspection.
Comment 3 Philip Withnall 2017-05-05 10:13:51 UTC 
Also, it was only really a problem for Vala, which I unfortunately no longer particularly care about.