From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 15 16:30:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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 2C94016A484 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:30:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1579143D55 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:30:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Jun 2006 16:30:29 -0000 Received: from p50911781.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO m2a2.dyndns.org) [80.145.23.129] by mail.gmx.net (mp033) with SMTP; 15 Jun 2006 18:30:29 +0200 X-Authenticated: #428038 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 418AC201054; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:30:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (m2a2.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26852-19; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:30:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id E53A820105A; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:30:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Matthias Andree To: Mikhail Teterin In-Reply-To: <200606141029.16701@aldan> (Mikhail Teterin's message of "Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:29:16 -0400") References: <200606112110.39148@aldan> <20060614133024.ku2ialxj6s4ocogc@netchild.homeip.net> <200606141029.16701@aldan> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:30:11 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at emma.line.org X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: Alexander Leidinger , Matthias Andree , Michael Nottebrock , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon Subject: Re: NOT installing the .la files X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:30:32 -0000 Mikhail Teterin writes: > On Wednesday 14 June 2006 07:30, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > =3D The current libtool port does install .la files. There's no work in = =A0 > =3D progress to change this. If nobody sends patches to the upstream =A0 > =3D maintainers, there will never be a libtool version which completely = =A0 > =3D works without .la files. So the right thing to do ATM is to *not* =A0 > =3D remove .la files in ports.=20 > > We go through quite some trouble to conditionally install port documentat= ion=20 > for many ports. Many ports also have options, which allow lighter=20 > configurations, with some features disabled -- to save space and build ti= mes.=20 > > It may sound like "a lot of work" to save a few Kb and inodes, but rememb= er,=20 > that these get multiplied by the countless thousands of computers... How= =20 > hard is something like: Not a valid argument - one or perhaps five inodes per port with a single FS block each -- it's not a global resource that's being wasted, but a local resource that is readily available. I'm not going to risk build errors with PREFIX or something just to save some bytes... --=20 Matthias Andree