Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:57:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/libvanessa_adt Makefile pkg-plist ports/devel/libvanessa_adt/files patch-ltmain.sh Message-ID: <20040324135544.E88409@qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <200403240109.09430.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403231422350.6103-100000@pancho> <200403240109.09430.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 March 2004 21:24, Mark Linimon wrote:
>
> > Although it has indeed been discussed to death, it has never made
> > it into the Porter's Handbook. Since you are familiar with the
> > rationale (I, personally, do not remember), could you possibly
> > summarize the purpose that they serve so that I can write up a PR
> > against the Handbook?
>
> lt_dlopen() from libltdl requires libtool-archives in order to work. There is
> no consensus about the question if a working lt_dlopen is worth having
> libtool archives installed by all ports which do provide them by default
> (many do). Some people have suggested to fix libltdl to use FreeBSD's native
> dlopen(), however, to my knowledge there have been no patches against libltdl
> as of date and many projects include libltdl in their own sources if they're
> using it.
This was my rememberance of the status of the discussion as well. That
is, they do no harm, and can do some good, so they should be preserved.
> Also, it should be noted that the prime motivation to remove ".la files" are
> the warnings from portlint (and sometimes complaints from users/committers
> who do not know about libltdl). If those warnings were removed, there would
> be no requirement to additionally document anything, IMHO.
Agreed on fixing portlint. Since you obviously have a good background on
this, perhaps you can suggest some edits for the porter's handbook?
Doug
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