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Date:      Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:31:01 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libtool and .la files
Message-ID:  <20070302163101.GA28161@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0703020645v53b96847k6c8d3d9d2ff7e521@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6eb82e0703020645v53b96847k6c8d3d9d2ff7e521@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:45:02PM +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote:
> IIRC, we don't install pseudo library files, i.e., .la files on FreeBSD.
> However, devel/libtool's ltmain.sh does not prevent this. Therefore,
> when set USE_AUTOTOOLS=3Dlibtool:15, we will install .la files.
>=20
> Do I miss something? Or, deve/libtool needs a patch?

Yeah we do, this is the vendor behaviour and while some people might
find it morally offensive to install an extra "useless" file, it's
both simpler to conform to this behaviour, and required by an
increasing number of ports :-)

Kris

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