libtool, not installing .la files?

[Christian Weisgerber]

Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> 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).

Which is just useless.  "If you have to use USE_INC_LIBTOOL_VER, you
must also add lthack to USE_GNOME."  Why?  How do these interact?  Does
this only apply to GNOME or to all ports that use USE_INC_LIBTOOL_VER?
What do these options *do*?

The comments in bsd.autotools.mk aren't really elucidating either.
Oh well.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de