Comment 11 for bug 96700

Catone, thanks for submitting a patch, but I think it is a bad solution, for at least two reasons.

First, it's an Ubuntu-specific hack as a conditional. I think it unlikely to be merged upstream. If it's not going to be merged upstream, we do not need the conditional.

If we remove the conditional, the second problem becomes apparent. This patch makes neon-config lie. When provided the --la-file option, that would print the location of a .so file.

There are really only two sensible ways to go forward:

 1. Include the .la file in the Ubuntu package of libneon. Why is it even removed in the first place?

 2. Trick question. There's actually only sensible solution that will fix the "cannot build upstream tarballs".