[PLUG] Library Extension, '.lai'

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Sep 5 00:03:10 UTC 2006


On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Carlos Konstanski wrote:

> Initial googling seems to indicate that libtool creates .lai files during
> installs.

> It seems that libtool creates .lai files.  Not sure why.  I can only find
> one such file on my gentoo system, and it is in the portage tmp directory. 
> I would guess that libtool creates these for in-process use, but they do
> not get installed into the libs directory.  Mine is part of the
> gnome-cups-manager ebuild.

Carlos,

   That's interesting. I was trying to 'make install' libgnomeprintui and it
failed because it could not find the .lai version. There's a .la version in
the tmp build directory, but not the one make sought.

Thanks,

Rich

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