[kde-freebsd] Qt ports install .la libtool libraries

Tijl Coosemans tijl at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 14 12:27:11 UTC 2014


On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:22:53 +0200 Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Mon, 05 May 2014 08:44:07 -0300 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
>> Tijl Coosemans <tijl at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>> The Qt ports don't use libtool directly but they do install .la libraries
>>> generated by qmake.  Are they needed for something or can they be
>>> removed?
>> 
>> I belive they can be removed -- none of the Linux distros I checked
>> (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, ArchLinux, openSUSE) ship those either.
> 
> I've worked out a patch for this now (attached).  It adds an extrapatch
> to devel/qt4 and devel/qt5, removes .la files from pkg-plist and bumps
> PORTREVISION on the affected ports.

Can somebody please approve this?  It's fairly trivial (just remove
create_libtool from CONFIG) and it would strike a significant number
of ports off my libtool todo list.


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