On Mar 10, 2006, at 00:58 , Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
The purpose of .la files is to record dependencies between libraries.
I am fully aware of .la files do. Really.
The ELF format stores these dependencies in the libraries themselves, so the .la files serve no purpose, and it's actually harmful in some cases because it hardcodes the path to the .so file, preventing relocation of the library.
Then submit an appropriate bug report with the libtool folks as to why this is such a bad idea. I am purposely *not* going to get drawn into any arguments whatsoever on the pros and cons of libtool itself.
The point of the recent, and pending work, is to remove a lot of FreeBSD-specific differences to the ports that make developing on FreeBSD on a multi-platform basis considerably harder than, say, Linux, or a pkgsrc system.
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