From owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 13:10:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24CE016A424; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:10:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89EFE43D46; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:10:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4528C208E; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:10:29 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Learn: ham X-Spam-Score: -2.4/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on tim.des.no Received: from xps.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by tim.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2CBF2086; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:10:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 95DA833C8D; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:10:28 +0100 (CET) From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Ade Lovett References: <200602231043.k1NAhYlr080084@repoman.freebsd.org> <86irqpwy35.fsf@xps.des.no> <86lkvi8ynb.fsf@xps.des.no> <1CBF3284-9303-4C26-B96E-4FF1C8EF30A0@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:10:28 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1CBF3284-9303-4C26-B96E-4FF1C8EF30A0@FreeBSD.org> (Ade Lovett's message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:52:48 -0800") Message-ID: <86veuhf9yz.fsf@xps.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.autotools.mk X-BeenThere: cvs-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:10:35 -0000 Ade Lovett writes: > On Mar 10, 2006, at 00:58 , Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > > The purpose of .la files is to record dependencies between libraries. > I am fully aware of .la files do. Really. Good! Now explain to me what good it does to have them around on an ELF system. What functionality do you gain from .la files? > The point of the recent, and pending work, is to remove a lot of > FreeBSD-specific differences to the ports that make developing on > FreeBSD on a multi-platform basis considerably harder than, say, > Linux, or a pkgsrc system. It used to be a breeze. It is now considerably harder, because gnu-autoconf's aclocal can't find libtool.ac, so you can't build anything that uses libtool. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no