From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Apr 24 7:27:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com (mailout10.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EEFC37B421 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:27:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.de by mailout10.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 170NiA-000805-07; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:25:34 +0200 Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (520065502893-0001@[80.131.120.203]) by fmrl01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 170Nhv-0h5S8OC; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:25:19 +0200 Received: from Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3OEPhsY085341; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:25:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from netchild@Leidinger.net) Message-Id: <200204241425.g3OEPhsY085341@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:25:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: .la files in ports, maintainers please fix them To: michaelnottebrock@gmx.net Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200204241616.57372.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Sender: 520065502893-0001@t-dialin.net 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 On 24 Apr, Michael Nottebrock wrote: >> I have a report from someone who has 134k of those useless (for us) >> files. > > I am not so sure about that anymore, could you please recap for me why they > are useless for us? I have not been able to find proper documentation about > that issue. Have a look at such a file with e.g. less. It's plain text. We don't need them to link working programs. They may be needed on other platforms, but not on FreeBSD. Bye, Alexander. -- Speak softly and carry a cellular phone. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message