From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Feb 27 14:37:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741B137B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:37:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2813D43FBF for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:37:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1RMafZX035094; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:36:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: howto stop port from installing .la files ? From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Will Andrews , "Bjoern A. Zeeb" , ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20030227223051.GA91669@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030227214652.GV37397@procyon.firepipe.net> <20030227223051.GA91669@rot13.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-XJEMC3yMfDz32c0q9ucL" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1046385437.315.22.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 27 Feb 2003 17:37:17 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-33.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --=-XJEMC3yMfDz32c0q9ucL Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 17:30, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:46:52PM -0800, Will Andrews wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:33:03PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > > > is there a proof way to stop a port from installing .la files ? > >=20 > > Why would you want to do that? Maybe there is something that > > depends on your port and uses lt_dlopen() to load one of its libs? >=20 > It's a policy that we shouldn't install .la files, because as far as > anyone knows they are useless on FreeBSD. I've found a few instances where they are required. Basically, guile and librep need these for their modules. For most applications, though, they're basically space eaters. Joe >=20 > Kris --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-XJEMC3yMfDz32c0q9ucL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+XpMdb2iPiv4Uz4cRAmnuAKCTz5EnzruWHesPWjBaxv4ZlFXfOQCcCWbQ UlLuEDN4jnfW/DVbbLwKG2M= =9Bhh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-XJEMC3yMfDz32c0q9ucL-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message