Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 07:38:16 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Team <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: all those .la files Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903020734160.383-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <19990302092913.E47693@shale.csir.co.za>
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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jeremy Lea wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 10:51:08PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > > Every one of our posts that uses the new libtool monstrosity installs, > > along with the libraries, at least one (and sometimes several) files > > ending with .la. These are useless ascii files that clutter up the > > library directories with no use to life other than to obscure listings > > of your libs (when you're trying to find "real" libs). > > > > How about changing portlint to where it catches any installed filename > > starting in "lib" and ending in ".la" and complains that the file should > > be manually 'terminated with extreme prejudice'? > > Yet another reason to consider moving all the libtool ports to use a > local copy of libtool. And the reasons that I don't want FreeBSD to require libtool are: 1) the author, pretty obviously from the Linux camp, has seen fit to embed several nasty comments about other OSs in it (including comments about FreeBSD), and 2) libtool is a solution running after a non-existent problem (it solves nothing whatsoever!) Seeing as it's broken for more platforms than it works for, it actually makes compiling and linking far more difficult. I want libtool to go away, so I can't get behind any effort to add it. > > 1. No more shared lib patches. > 2. Can patch it to add thinggs like '11d' to the installed libs. > 3. Can not install .la files. > 4. <add more as you see fit> > > Regards, > -Jeremy > > -- > | "In this world of temptation, I will stand for what is right. > --+-- With a heart of salvation, I will hold up the light. > | If I live or if I die, if I laugh or if I cry, > | in this world of temptation, I will stand." -Pam Thum > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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