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Date:      27 Feb 2003 17:37:17 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: howto stop port from installing .la files ?
Message-ID:  <1046385437.315.22.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <20030227223051.GA91669@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 17:30, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:46:52PM -0800, Will Andrews wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:33:03PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> > > is there a proof way to stop a port from installing .la files ?
> >=20
> > Why would you want to do that?  Maybe there is something that
> > depends on your port and uses lt_dlopen() to load one of its libs?
>=20
> It's a policy that we shouldn't install .la files, because as far as
> anyone knows they are useless on FreeBSD.

I've found a few instances where they are required.  Basically, guile
and librep need these for their modules.  For most applications, though,
they're basically space eaters.

Joe

>=20
> Kris
--=20
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