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<screen><userinput>rm -rf /usr/share/{info,man,doc}/*</userinput></screen>
- <para>Second, the libtool .la files are only useful when linking with static
- libraries. They are unneeded and potentially harmful when using dynamic
- shared libraries, especially when using non-autotools build systems.
- While still in chroot, remove those files now:</para>
+ <para>Second, on a modern Linux system, the libtool .la files are only
+ useful for libltdl. No libraries in LFS are expected to be loaded by
+ libltdl, and it's known that some .la files can cause BLFS packages
+ fail to build. Remove those files now:</para>
<screen><userinput>find /usr/{lib,libexec} -name \*.la -delete</userinput></screen>