New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> writes:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:19:46AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> > Not if you want to use pre-built packages.  You made sure of that when
> > you decided (against my objections) to include .la files in packages.
> I have a suspicion you're never going to let that go, but it's not
> relevant here anyway.  Binaries have been hardcoding their build
> location (e.g. /usr/local) since the dawn of time.

Most don't.

>                                                     The best you can
> do is to binary edit everything to a string of the same length, and
> that works for .la files too.

The existence of .la files is a bug.

We already have a mechanism for recording dependencies between
libraries; it's built into the ELF format, and does not require
hardcoding any directories.  Introducing .la files which override the
existing mechanism and *do* hardcode directories is a regression.

I don't buy the argument that "KDE won't build without them", or
whatever it was you used to justify this.  There is nothing an .la file
does which can't be done more properly by adding the correct directory
to your ldconfig path.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no