cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.autotools.mk

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Tue Mar 7 16:59:32 PST 2006


Ade Lovett <ade at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   * all the legacy hacks to libtool that we have been saddled with
>   over the years have been removed. (eg: .la files are now
>   installed) This brings us in line not only with Linux
>   distributions, but also pkgsrc.

.la files are useless on an ELF system, and may be harmful if you are
trying to cross-build software that links against libraries for which
.la files are installed.

DES
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