From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 2 16:31:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8185B16A405 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:31:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F14413C46B for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:31:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5535B1A4D80; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 08:31:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AE4685138A; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:31:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:31:01 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Rong-en Fan Message-ID: <20070302163101.GA28161@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <6eb82e0703020645v53b96847k6c8d3d9d2ff7e521@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0703020645v53b96847k6c8d3d9d2ff7e521@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libtool and .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: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:31:02 -0000 --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF6FFFWry0BWjoQKURAuagAJ0WkXDRRR1jntS7Thi7onCJQ773+gCfZ6d9 LZ+Lwj6AGacBH0v4v/VJX/E= =E4JZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--