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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--=-342ETV7ojB6yW9fIMmmp Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-342ETV7ojB6yW9fIMmmp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+Zglrb2iPiv4Uz4cRAoRzAJ9zUda8+Ovi3YkDtA5FumQBb9ujFgCdFGCU jeVDV9iuQUVwiRB9bpxFbsI= =uyEM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-342ETV7ojB6yW9fIMmmp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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