Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 17:53:21 -0400 From: "Adam Weinberger" <adamw@adamw.org> To: "Hajimu UMEMOTO" <ume@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r353496 - in head/security/cyrus-sasl2: . files Message-ID: <9EACDCE2-BE95-4F3B-A7EF-AEB9B6484690@adamw.org> In-Reply-To: <yger4415us4.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> References: <201405091847.s49IlPaG012283@svn.freebsd.org> <ygetx8y5ape.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> <20140510121003.3681e34c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <yger4415us4.wl%ume@mahoroba.org>
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On 10 May 2014, at 14:54, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: >>>>>> On Sat, 10 May 2014 12:10:03 +0200 >>>>>> Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> said: > >> Why, did you commit it to my port without knowing me about it? > > tijl> I got a report from two users close in time so I sensed there > was some > tijl> urgency to commit a fix. One was a private email, the other one > was on > tijl> ports@: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2014-May/092146.html > >> I want to know why .la is needed? > > tijl> They are needed as long as there are .la files in other ports > which > tijl> still contain references to them. Those ports first need > USES=libtool > tijl> too such that those references are removed. Examples in this > case are > tijl> openldap-client-sasl and libetpan. > > Thank you for explanation. > However, it seems there was non-urgent change as well. Approval has been granted across the ports tree to adopt the modern and simplified build mechanisms. The general idea is that if you haven't done it by now, you were hoping someone would give you a hand with it, which is exactly what was done here. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org http://www.adamw.org
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