To all port maintainers: libtool

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Tijl Coosemans <tijl at freebsd.org> (from Thu, 5 Jun 2014  
18:53:03 +0200):

> On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:39:21 -0500 Bryan Drewery wrote:
>> I don't know what .la files are used for and have no time currently to
>> research it.
>>
>> What is the impact to non-ports consumers of removing .la files? Do they
>> also need patches to make them build?
>
> Removing a .la file is somewhat like a library version bump.  Anything
> that depends on it needs to be recompiled.

I remember from tests waaaaay in the past that not all programs will  
be happy when the .la files are not there. I remember that I once  
tried to remove the .la files but it didn't work as the program wanted  
to open the .la files (after recompile). Maybe libltdl is openening  
them? Did you make some checks/tests in this regard?

Bye,
Alexander.
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