Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:10:28 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.autotools.mk Message-ID: <86veuhf9yz.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <1CBF3284-9303-4C26-B96E-4FF1C8EF30A0@FreeBSD.org> (Ade Lovett's message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:52:48 -0800") References: <200602231043.k1NAhYlr080084@repoman.freebsd.org> <86irqpwy35.fsf@xps.des.no> <C7DB396E-DEC9-4990-A7DA-499D5285344F@FreeBSD.org> <86lkvi8ynb.fsf@xps.des.no> <1CBF3284-9303-4C26-B96E-4FF1C8EF30A0@FreeBSD.org>
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Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> 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
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