libtool, not installing .la files?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:02:59 +0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber  
<naddy at mips.inka.de> wrote:

> What are the current hacks to avoid installing .la files?
>
> My libogg and libvorbis ports used to not install .la files.  Now
> I'm getting mail from kris' scripts that the libogg port misses
> libogg.la from its plist.  Wondering why I get no report for
> libvorbis, I checked that port only to see that kris has already
> added the .la files to the plist there.
>
> Apparently the libtool changes in recent months have changed things,
> but in between USE_LIBTOOL_VER, USE_INC_LIBTOOL_VER, and USE_GNOME=lthack
> I'm lost.  What's the proper way to deal with a port that uses
> libtool to build its libraries?  How to skip .la?
>
> Is this documented anywhere?

I haven't check in porter handbook, but we (FreeBSD GNOME Team) has a  
small documented about libtool over at  
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/porting.html (below).

Cheers,
Mezz


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