From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 2 18:50:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ACEB14E41 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:50:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@stampede.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id UAA27615; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 20:50:00 -0600 (CST) Received: from sji-ca7-236.ix.netcom.com(209.109.235.236) by dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id rma027524; Tue Mar 2 20:49:44 1999 Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.2/8.6.9) id SAA36437; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:49:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:49:24 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903030249.SAA36437@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> To: garyj@muc.de Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199903021952.UAA00615@peedub.muc.de> (message from Gary Jennejohn on Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:52:47 +0100) Subject: Re: all those .la files From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Gary Jennejohn * * Chuck Robey writes: * >And the reasons that I don't want FreeBSD to require libtool are: : * >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. Sorry if I'm smoking something wierd here, but I thought the original proposal is to have ports come with their own libtool to use ports/devel/libtool. That way we only need to fix one broken port instead of dozens, no? :) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message