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Remove `*.la` files from ecosystem

See original GitHub issue

It turns out that the libtool created *.la files can cause extraneous overlinkage. This is where every shared object file gets directly linked to each of its dependencies, even if they are far upstream in the dependency chain and not actually a direct dependency.

As discussed in https://github.com/conda-forge/glib-feedstock/pull/31, conda-forge/libxcb-feedstock#9, and conda-forge/staged-recipes#673, the decision is to remove these files. However, this has been done in an incomplete and inconsistent way. We also have no way currently of preventing folks from adding these files to packages in the future.

The following is a listing of all packages which need to have the *.la files removed. Please check them off as the *.la files are removed. Additionally, we need to add docs to this repo explaining why these files are not OK. Finally, an option should be added to conda-build to prevent *.la files from being added to a package.

The command for removing the *.la files should be:

find $PREFIX -name '*.la' -delete

CC @jakirkham @ocefpaf @mingwandroid @pkgw

adept
alsa-lib
argtable2
backtrace
bdw-gc
binutils
brial
cairo
cairomm
cddlib
check
cliquer
cloog
coincbc
coinmp
cppunit
cunit
curl
cyrus-sasl
czmq
dbus
eclib
ecm
ecmwf_grib
exempi
expat
fflas-ffpack
fftw
flex
fontconfig
fplll
freetds
freetype
freexl
fswatch
gdal
gdb
gdk-pixbuf
geoip
geos
gettext
gf2x
giac
giflib
givaro
glib
glibmm
glog
glpk
gmp
gnutls
gobject-introspection
gperftools
graphviz
gsl
gst-plugins-base
gstreamer
gtk2
harfbuzz
harminv
hdf4
hdf5
hdfeos2
hdfeos5
hunspell
igraph
imagemagick
iml
inkscape
inotify-tools
iperf
ipopt
isl
jags
jansson
jasper
jpeg
jq
json-c
judy
lal
lalframe
lalmetaio
lalsimulation
lalxml
leptonica
lftp
libarchive
libassuan
libatomic_ops
libblitz
libbrial
libcf
libcmaes
libconfig
libctl
libdap4
libedit
libev
libevent
libffi
libflac
libframe
libgap
libgcrypt
libgd
libgdal
libglu
libgpg-error
libgsasl
libhwloc
libiconv
libidn11
libjpeg-turbo
libksba
libmad
libmagic
libmatio
libmemcached
libmo_unpack
libntlm
libogg
libpng
libprotobuf
libsecret
libsemigroups
libsigcpp
libsigsegv
libsndfile
libsodium
libspatialindex
libspatialite
libtasn1
libtheora
libtiff
libtool
libunistring
libunwind
libuuid
libuv
libvorbis
libwebp
libxcb
libxml2
libxmlpp
libxslt
lighttpd
linbox
log4cpp
lrcalc
m4ri
m4rie
mesalib
metaio
moab
modsecurity
mono
mpb
mpc
mpfi
mpfr
mpg123
mpich
mpir
nco
netcdf-cxx4
netcdf-fortran
neuron
nfft
nlopt
npth
ntbtls
ntl
numcosmo
ocl-icd
octave
oniguruma
openfst
openmotif-dev
openmpi
ossuuid
pango
pcre
pcre2
pixman
planarity
pocketsphinx
popt
postgis
ppl
primesieve
proj4
protobuf
pygobject
pymeep
pynac
python-ecmwf_grib
qd
qpdf
qt
qtlocation
qtwebkit
rw
sdl2
sdl2_gfx
sdl2_image
sdl2_mixer
sdl2_net
sdl2_ttf
singular
singularity
smpeg2
snappy
source-highlight
sox
speex
sphinxbase
sqlite
sstp-client
tesseract
texinfo
texlive-core
trmm_rsl
udunits
udunits2
unixodbc
xerces-c
xorg-libice
xorg-libsm
xorg-libx11
xorg-libxau
xorg-libxaw
xorg-libxaw3d
xorg-libxcb
xorg-libxcursor
xorg-libxdmcp
xorg-libxext
xorg-libxfixes
xorg-libxft
xorg-libxi
xorg-libxmu
xorg-libxp
xorg-libxpm
xorg-libxrandr
xorg-libxrender
xorg-libxt
xorg-libxtst
xraylib
xz
yaml
zbar
zeromq
zookeeper-c

Issue Analytics

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:23 (20 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

4reactions

mingwandroidcommented, Aug 1, 2018

I’m considering adding a check to see that lib packages identified as run requirements are contributing a .so that’s actually linked to, issuing a warning otherwise.

2reactions

epruessecommented, Aug 29, 2018

Sounds all nice. What do I do if my builds now fail with

/bin/bash ./libtool  --tag=CXX   --mode=link g++ -std=c++11  -g -O2 -w -L/home/travis/miniconda/lib/arb/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/travis/miniconda/lib/arb/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/travis/miniconda/lib   -o src/libsina.la -rpath /home/travis/install/lib src/align.lo src/aligned_base.lo src/alignment_stats.lo src/cseq.lo src/cseq_comparator.lo src/famfinder.lo src/mseq.lo src/pseq.lo src/query_arb.lo src/query_pt.lo src/rw_fasta.lo src/rw_arb.lo src/log.lo src/search_filter.lo src/tray.lo src/kmer_search.lo -lz -lARBDB -lCORE -L/home/travis/miniconda/lib -lglib-2.0 -lboost_program_options -lboost_thread -lpthread -lboost_serialization -lboost_system -ltbb -ltbbmalloc -lrt 
/bin/grep: /home/travis/miniconda/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory
/home/travis/miniconda/bin/sed: can't read /home/travis/miniconda/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory
libtool:   error: '/home/travis/miniconda/lib/libiconv.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make[1]: *** [src/libsina.la] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/travis/build/epruesse/SINA'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Best I can come up with is manually creating the missing .la file. 😦