From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 1 6: 3:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E64BF37B401 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 06:03:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFEC843F75 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 06:03:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@zabbadoz.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A13501FFBAB; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 15:03:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id 8F32B1FFBA6; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 15:03:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix, from userid 1060) id 7ABAD15348; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 13:40:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C3B1532F; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 13:40:12 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 13:40:12 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net To: Kris Kennaway Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Joe Marcus Clarke Subject: Re: howto stop port from installing .la files ? In-Reply-To: <20030227223051.GA91669@rot13.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: References: <20030227214652.GV37397@procyon.firepipe.net> <20030227223051.GA91669@rot13.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 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 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") ? I think it was in porters guide or at least I came to this because portlint complained else I wouldn't have noted. -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT 56 69 73 69 74 http://www.zabbadoz.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message