From owner-cvs-all Sun Mar 10 15:24:18 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from isris.pair.com (isris.pair.com [209.68.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C35AA37B404 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:24:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 25554 invoked by uid 3130); 10 Mar 2002 23:24:10 -0000 Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:24:10 -0500 From: Garrett Rooney To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: sobomax@FreeBSD.org, olgeni@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/neon pkg-plist ports/www/neon/files patch-ltmain.sh Message-ID: <20020310232410.GD4251@electricjellyfish.net> References: <20020310222434.GA4251@electricjellyfish.net> <200203102317.g2ANH03b063503@aldan.algebra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200203102317.g2ANH03b063503@aldan.algebra.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 06:17:00PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Because none of the FreeBSD tools use/support the .la files. They are > useless. The sitecopy should look for some other part of neon -- a part, > that may have other uses. i can see the validity of this argument, and maxim's about just trying to link against -lneon, rather than using the libneon.la file, but just out of curiosity, is this documented anywhere? i've looked through the porters handbook, and was unable to find anything concerning .la files. if we're going to say 'ports should not install them', then it seems like it should be documented somewhere. -garrett -- garrett rooney Unix was not designed to stop you from rooneg@electricjellyfish.net doing stupid things, because that would http://electricjellyfish.net/ stop you from doing clever things. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message