Bug#897387: xfslibs-dev needs to include .la files

Bug#897387: xfslibs-dev needs to include .la files

[Bastian Germann]

Tags: wontfix

On Tue, 1 May 2018 12:03:11 -0700 Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> 
wrote:
> Package: xfslibs-dev
> Version: 4.15.1-1
> 
> trying to build the latest from
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git
> 
>     [CC]    t_truncate_self
> /bin/bash ../libtool --quiet --tag=CC --mode=link gcc t_truncate_self.c -o t_truncate_self -g -O2 -g -O2 -DDEBUG  -I../include -DVERSION=\"1.1.1\" -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -funsigned-char -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -DHAVE_FALLOCATE   -lattr /usr/lib/libhandle.la -lacl -lpthread   ../lib/libtest.la
> libtool:   error: cannot find the library '/usr/lib/libhandle.la' or unhandled argument '/usr/lib/libhandle.la'
> 
> I downloaded the debian package of xfslibs-dev, built it, then
> manually copied libhandle/libhandle.la into /lib and then I could build
> xfstests-dev.

Please see https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval for a 
reason not to include the .la file. In fact, it is explicitly removed 
during the Debian package build. Most probably, you can configure 
xfstests-dev not to require a libhandle.la file.