[tlbuild] TeX Live builds -- second summary

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Tue, 5 May 2009, Karl Berry wrote:

>    so you are using a distro that thinks they can discard the .la files.
>
> It's not like I'm doing anything obscure.  As far as I can tell neither
> Red Hat nor Debian install .la files.  Not to mention there are all the
> non-GNU/Linux systems out there that certainly do not use libtool
> despite providing libz et al.  It would be a waste of time to complain,
> or expect them to be there.

Hi Karl,

what I meant to say is, that the fontconfig build process produces creates
and installs a libfontconfig.la files. And I do indeed think that it is not
correct if distros drop this from their devel packages.  However, there
never was a libz.la.

Regards
Peter