From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 1 8:59:45 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 4E60D37B401 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 08:59:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (meitner.wh.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.129.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E3E043FDF for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 08:59:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org ([10.3.12.105]) by meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (8.10.2/8.10.2/SuSE Linux 8.10.0-0.3) with ESMTP id h21Gxbc06274; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:59:37 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de: Host [10.3.12.105] claimed to be lofi.dyndns.org Received: from kiste.my.domain (kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h21GxZCG019344 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:59:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: Joe Marcus Clarke Subject: Re: howto stop port from installing .la files ? Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:59:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" , Kris Kennaway , ports@freebsd.org References: <200303011732.59310.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <1046536616.310.8.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <1046536616.310.8.camel@gyros> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_3bOY+J491KOgnhn"; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200303011759.35456.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new 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 --Boundary-02=_3bOY+J491KOgnhn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 01 March 2003 17:36, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 11:32, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > On Saturday 01 March 2003 17:21, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 11:13, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > > > > My advice is to see if your port will work without them. If not, > > > install them, and note why you're doing it. > > > > That's not good advice, because you cannot know what _other_ applicatio= ns > > might want to lt_dlopen(ext) the libraries your port installs. > > Like I said, in all my porting, I've only run across two instances where > this has been the case. It's very easy to go back and install the .la > files should they be needed later. However, this is a _very_ rare > thing. Well it's not at all rare for KDE apps, since they all use libltdl (if you= =20 ever wanna b0rk someone's KDE installation out of malice, sneak up to his=20 machine and do find / -name *.la -delete ;)). The question remains what is = to=20 be gained by nuking the libtool archives. All the reasons people come up wi= th=20 (like "waste of disk space, CPU time and developer's time", quote sobomax)= =20 sound rather smug to me when you look at what that's actually about (~1k=20 textfiles). =2D-=20 Regards, Michael Nottebrock --Boundary-02=_3bOY+J491KOgnhn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+YOb3Xhc68WspdLARAuVRAJ4zzZt6STujqVV5hr+RjvSdrkuufgCfTJQJ RImi0vvo6NiKGr1fbr+V+BM= =pVNc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_3bOY+J491KOgnhn-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message