On Wednesday 24 January 2007 16:01, John Blinka wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > [In the spirit of the immortal words uttered by the young junior > > Vogon]: > > > > > > Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmm,....... with vi? > > > > alan > > Sheeesh.... I've never looked at the innards of a .la file - > assumed that, since they were located in .../lib directories, they > contained mysterious binary information which couldn't be manipulated > with an ordinary text editor. Now that I've looked, I'm > embarrassed! Well, thanks for teaching me something.
Guess what? I did the same thing two months ago :-) After years of working with the stuff I'd never ever had reason to look inside a .la and it was only when I hovered over one in Konqueror I saw it was plain text Go figure! alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
