Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-06-06 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:54:37 -0500 Bryan Drewery wrote: > On 6/6/14, 9:27 AM, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:02:24 +0200 Alexander Leidinger wrote: >>> Quoting Tijl Coosemans (from Thu, 5 Jun 2014 >>> 18:53:03 +0200): On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:39:21 -0500 Bryan Drewery wrote: >>

Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-06-06 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 6/6/14, 9:27 AM, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:02:24 +0200 Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Tijl Coosemans (from Thu, 5 Jun 2014 18:53:03 +0200): On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:39:21 -0500 Bryan Drewery wrote: I don't know what .la files are used for and have no time currently to

Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-06-06 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:02:24 +0200 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Tijl Coosemans (from Thu, 5 Jun 2014 > 18:53:03 +0200): >> On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:39:21 -0500 Bryan Drewery wrote: >>> I don't know what .la files are used for and have no time currently to >>> research it. >>> >>> What is t

Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-06-06 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Tijl Coosemans (from Thu, 5 Jun 2014 18:53:03 +0200): On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:39:21 -0500 Bryan Drewery wrote: I don't know what .la files are used for and have no time currently to research it. What is the impact to non-ports consumers of removing .la files? Do they also need patc

Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-06-05 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:39:21 -0500 Bryan Drewery wrote: > I don't know what .la files are used for and have no time currently to > research it. > > What is the impact to non-ports consumers of removing .la files? Do they > also need patches to make them build? Removing a .la file is somewhat li

Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-06-05 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 5/8/14, 5:16 PM, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thu, 8 May 2014 21:27:56 +0200 Alexander Leidinger wrote: On Thu, 8 May 2014 00:24:20 +0200 Tijl Coosemans wrote: USES=libtool modifiers :keepla and :oldver. You wasn't explicit, which may be beneficial for people which don't have English as thei

Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-05-12 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Mon, 12 May 2014 06:58:06 +0200 Matthias Andree wrote: > Issue #1: .la files > > I just received PR 189491 (which proposes USES=libtool:keepla) and > looked at it, and thought it good to kill the .la files, so I have tried > USES=libtool, without keepla or stuff. The ports are depended on by a

Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-05-11 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 08.05.2014 00:24, schrieb Tijl Coosemans: > Hi, > > I've been asked to write something about USES=libtool to clarify a few > things about what it does and why. Tijl, thanks for the effort. I have two findings I do not currently fully understand, perhaps someone who has done more digging into

Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-05-09 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Fri, 9 May 2014 20:02:34 +0200 Willy Offermans wrote: > Dear Tijl and FreeBSD friends, > > I had run ``portmaster -ad'' and figured out that > /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.la had disappeared. > > Some other ports were complaining about that and did not want to compile. > > cyrus-sasl2 uses libtool

Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-05-09 Thread Willy Offermans
Dear Tijl and FreeBSD friends, On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 12:24:20AM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > Hi, > > I've been asked to write something about USES=libtool to clarify a few > things about what it does and why. > > > First: what is libtool? > > Libtool is a build script that acts as a wrappe

Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-05-08 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Thu, 8 May 2014 21:27:56 +0200 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Thu, 8 May 2014 00:24:20 +0200 > Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> USES=libtool modifiers :keepla and :oldver. > > You wasn't explicit, which may be beneficial for people which don't > have English as their first language... > > Is it righ

Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-05-08 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Thu, 8 May 2014 00:24:20 +0200 Tijl Coosemans wrote: > USES=libtool modifiers :keepla and :oldver. You wasn't explicit, which may be beneficial for people which don't have English as their first language... Is it right that you tell everyone to replace "USE_AUTOTOOLS=YES" with "USES=libtool:

Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-05-07 Thread Chad J. Milios
On May 7, 2014, at 4:16 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > >> On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 12:24:20AM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've been asked to write something about USES=libtool to clarify a few >> things about what it does and why. >> >> >> First: what is libtool? >> >> Libtool i

Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-05-07 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 12:24:20AM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > Hi, > > I've been asked to write something about USES=libtool to clarify a few > things about what it does and why. > > > First: what is libtool? > > Libtool is a build script that acts as a wrapper around a compiler. You > can