From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Apr 24 9:34:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mailout07.sul.t-online.com (mailout07.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C4D37B404 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:34:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fwd08.sul.t-online.de by mailout07.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 170O8L-0007OV-01; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:52:37 +0200 Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (520065502893-0001@[80.131.120.203]) by fmrl08.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 170O84-1phRmyC; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:52:20 +0200 Received: from Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3OEqisY092634; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:52:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from netchild@Leidinger.net) Message-Id: <200204241452.g3OEqisY092634@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:52:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: .la files in ports, maintainers please fix them To: michaelnottebrock@gmx.net Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200204241646.19518.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Sender: 520065502893-0001@t-dialin.net 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 On 24 Apr, Michael Nottebrock wrote: >> >> I have a report from someone who has 134k of those useless (for us) >> >> files. >> > >> > I am not so sure about that anymore, could you please recap for me why >> > they are useless for us? I have not been able to find proper >> > documentation about that issue. >> >> Have a look at such a file with e.g. less. It's plain text. We don't >> need them to link working programs. They may be needed on other >> platforms, but not on FreeBSD. > > What about > http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.0-api/classref/kdecore/KLibLoader.html#library > ,for instance, then? Dependcies should get resolved at link time in the normal case. For plug-ins one should know the dependency graph. Everything should be known at development time. It's not neccessary (a waste of resources) to do it at runtime. I assume removing the kde .la's breaks KDE. Can someone confirm this? Bye, Alexander. -- "One world, one web, one program" -- Microsoft promotional ad "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer" -- Adolf Hitler http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message