On Mar 14, 2006, at 05:10 , Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Good! Now explain to me what good it does to have them around on an
ELF system. What functionality do you gain from .la files?
1. they provide a platform-independent method of indicating
dependencies
2. they're used by code that utilizes libltdl to dynamically bring
in modules outside of the "normal" link-loader method.
But you already knew that.
It used to be a breeze. It is now considerably harder, because
gnu-autoconf's aclocal can't find libtool.ac, so you can't build
anything that uses libtool.
I don't see a libtool.ac anywhere within devel/{,gnu}auto{conf,make}*
The goal here is to provide the exact same autotools functionality
(libtool, autoconf, automake) as is present on other systems, notably
Linux and NetBSD pkgsrc. The recent libtool conversion has proven
itself to work (otherwise there wouldn't be very many packages for
the upcoming 5.5/6.1 releases). The next step is to work on similar
functionality wrappers for the autoconf/automake ports.
I'm really not interested in, nor do I have the time for, religious
arguments. If you don't like the way that libtool works, and want to
propose a better system, the libtool mailing list is --> way. In
addition, if you're interested in helping improve the autotools
system on FreeBSD, continuing to make it work in a similar manner to
other platforms, there's lots to do...
-aDe
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