libtool's raison d'etre (Re: NOT installing the .la files)

[Matthias Andree]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> In my view of the world, this gnucash incident 
> is just another good reason to not use the .la files... And another 
> illustration for how bad trading the cleanliness and performance for the 
> porter's convenience can sometimes get.

I'd much rather consider this a good reason to fix the culprit (libltdl
as far as I understand the report), instead of messing with hundreds of
ports to work around the libltdl issue and perhaps create new issues for
dependent ports.

-- 
Matthias Andree