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Date:      05 Mar 2003 09:27:56 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org, will@csociety.org, bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: howto stop port from installing .la files ?
Message-ID:  <1046874475.309.18.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <20030305151707.7278ff9d.Alexander@Leidinger.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.53.0302272130150.72813@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> <20030227214652.GV37397@procyon.firepipe.net> <20030227223051.GA91669@rot13.obsecurity.org> <1046385437.315.22.camel@gyros> <20030305151707.7278ff9d.Alexander@Leidinger.net>

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On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:17, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On 27 Feb 2003 17:37:17 -0500
> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote:
>=20
> > > It's a policy that we shouldn't install .la files, because as far as
> > > anyone knows they are useless on FreeBSD.
> >=20
> > I've found a few instances where they are required.  Basically, guile
> > and librep need these for their modules.
>=20
> Because they use lt_dlopen? Or is there another reason?

Because they use lt_dlopen().  Any glib-based application should use the
g_module wrappers which use dlopen(), so GNOME apps shouldn't need to
install .la files.  guile and librep don't use glib, and rely on the lt_
functions for module loading.

Joe

>=20
> Bye,
> Alexander.
--=20
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