On Mar 07, 2006, at 16:59 , Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
.la files are useless on an ELF system

Cite, please? Given that around 35% of our libtool-using ports already installed .la files prior to this change, as well as extensive use of them in Linux and NetBSD's pkgsrc (both of which run on ELF-based systems, last time I checked), I'm sure any such critical problems would have been found by now.

, and may be harmful if you are
trying to cross-build software that links against libraries for which
.la files are installed.

Again, please cite, particularly given the capability to cross-build pkgsrc.

-aDe

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