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From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>,
	Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: howto stop port from installing .la files ?
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:13:18 +0100
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On Saturday 01 March 2003 14:40, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for your answers. The gnome hack did not help either as some
> things were hard coded in static Makefiles ...
>
> > It's a policy that we shouldn't install .la files, because as far as
> > anyone knows they are useless on FreeBSD.
>
> I have far too few knowledge about this so would it be possible to
> explain a bit more or do your have a pointer where to find more
> information on this ("useless on FreeBSD") ?

At least not in FreeBSD docs. Will explained it quite well in this thread why 
they are NOT useless, you can read more on dlopen() and its 
libltdl-counterparts lt_dlopen() and lt_dlopenext() in dlopen's manpage and 
in libtool's documentation, which is available in several places on the net.

-- 
Regards,
	Michael Nottebrock

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