Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:41:29 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, marcus@marcuscom.com, michaelnottebrock@gmx.net, kris@obsecurity.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto stop port from installing .la files ? Message-ID: <20030305144129.GA7505@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030305153523.7ce0ab1b.Alexander@Leidinger.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0302272130150.72813@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> <20030227223051.GA91669@rot13.obsecurity.org> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0303011335320.738@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> <200303011713.19351.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <1046535678.310.5.camel@gyros> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0303011634080.738@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> <20030305153523.7ce0ab1b.Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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--X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:35:23PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 16:59:34 +0000 (UTC) > "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote: >=20 > > Reading about libtool is not the problem. Reading about WHY Kris said > > it is useless on FreeBSD (be it true or not) was what I thought about. >=20 > AFAIK: there's no "one true way"(TM) to open a shared lib on every OS, > libltdl tries to provide a pseudo-standard for this. There also seem to > be inconsistencies in some implementations of dlopen() itself, so not > every useful feature is available everywhere. lt_dlopen() seems to > provide some of those features on platforms where they aren't available. > For some of those features the data in the .la files are needed. AFAIK > our dlopen() is one of the good ones, so we don't need the .la files. > Unfortunately lt_dlopen() refuses to open a lib if there's no .la file. >=20 > So far the only reason why we need the .la file is because there's a bug > somewhere... So... basically we need to fix *our* libtool port to provide a smarter lt_dlopen port and then we can get rid of all .la files? --Stijn --=20 Tact, n.: The unsaid part of what you're thinking. --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+ZgyZY3r/tLQmfWcRAsmVAKCH+ogNJ4ZyuuhXK3DLJZcXai18NACghAnR gfncDl1pXFTIOObt6ExDv3I= =PFcj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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