From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 2 12:11:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from peedub.muc.de (newpc.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D5D14E12 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:11:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA00615 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 20:52:47 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199903021952.UAA00615@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: all those .la files Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Mar 1999 07:38:16 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:52:47 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chuck Robey writes: >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. > hear, hear ! Everytime I install a port which uses libtool I have to go in and edit the damned thing because it always screws up setting PATH. A royal PITA. --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message