From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 1 9: 6: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875D537B401 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 09:06:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 857E843FBD for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 09:06:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h21H57ZX062002; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 12:05:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: howto stop port from installing .la files ? From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Michael Nottebrock Cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" , Kris Kennaway , ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200303011759.35456.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <200303011732.59310.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <1046536616.310.8.camel@gyros> <200303011759.35456.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-GekBT1M2MOWrWL0CucQr" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1046538354.310.18.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 01 Mar 2003 12:05:54 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-32.1 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,MIME_LONG_LINE_QP, PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --=-GekBT1M2MOWrWL0CucQr Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 11:59, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Saturday 01 March 2003 17:36, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 11:32, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > On Saturday 01 March 2003 17:21, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 11:13, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > > > > > > My advice is to see if your port will work without them. If not, > > > > install them, and note why you're doing it. > > > > > > That's not good advice, because you cannot know what _other_ applicat= ions > > > might want to lt_dlopen(ext) the libraries your port installs. > > > > Like I said, in all my porting, I've only run across two instances wher= e > > this has been the case. It's very easy to go back and install the .la > > files should they be needed later. However, this is a _very_ rare > > thing. >=20 > Well it's not at all rare for KDE apps, since they all use libltdl (if yo= u=20 > ever wanna b0rk someone's KDE installation out of malice, sneak up to his= =20 > machine and do find / -name *.la -delete ;)).=20 So do the KDE components roll their own ltdl and compile it in statically? I only found five ports that actually depend on libltdl. > The question remains what is to=20 > be gained by nuking the libtool archives. All the reasons people come up = with=20 > (like "waste of disk space, CPU time and developer's time", quote sobomax= )=20 > sound rather smug to me when you look at what that's actually about (~1k=20 > textfiles). I guess it's best left to the porter's preference and knowledge of the application. I'm not going to go on a crusade to remove all .la files from all ports. However, in the GNOME ports that I know don't need those libraries, I'll not install them.=20 Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-GekBT1M2MOWrWL0CucQr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+YOhyb2iPiv4Uz4cRAv29AJ9a6H9Zuf0tfnfTRadHmBy+XJMTfQCgqdFW CfhaDs1O2RKGaG10+8g+HBM= =hw9l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-GekBT1M2MOWrWL0CucQr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message