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

Tijl Coosemans tijl at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 30 14:22:53 UTC 2014


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.
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