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

Max Brazhnikov makc at freebsd.org
Fri Jul 18 17:47:01 UTC 2014


On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:27:11 +0200 Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> 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.

The patch looks harmless. Go ahead, if you haven't got green light already.

Max


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