Re: To all port maintainers: libtool

2014-06-06 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Tijl Coosemans t...@freebsd.org (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

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 t...@freebsd.org (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

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 t...@freebsd.org (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

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 t...@freebsd.org (from Thu, 5 Jun 2014 18:53:03 +0200): On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:39:21 -0500 Bryan Drewery

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 t...@freebsd.org wrote: USES=libtool modifiers :keepla and :oldver. You wasn't explicit, which may be beneficial for people which don't

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 like a

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 lot

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