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Date:      Sun, 18 Jun 2006 02:07:28 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libtool's raison d'etre (Re: NOT installing the .la files)
Message-ID:  <20060618000728.GA12659@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <200606171320.14360@aldan>
References:  <200606112110.39148@aldan> <1150480348.71790.22.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20060616210857.GA715@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200606171320.14360@aldan>

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On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> In my view of the world, this gnucash incident 
> is just another good reason to not use the .la files... And another 
> illustration for how bad trading the cleanliness and performance for the 
> porter's convenience can sometimes get.

I'd much rather consider this a good reason to fix the culprit (libltdl
as far as I understand the report), instead of messing with hundreds of
ports to work around the libltdl issue and perhaps create new issues for
dependent ports.

-- 
Matthias Andree



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