Re: FreeBSD libtool15 port warning

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Joe Orton wrote:

> Just a FYI, this is a particularly bad "packager broke libtool" issue:
> the libtool15 package in the FreeBSD ports collection does not install
> the .la script in --mode=install!  Please join my petition to have them
> fix it: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=76363
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/libtool15/files/patch-ltmain.sh?annotate=1.3

OMG!  One thing you may want to mention is that the existence of an 
associated libtool .la file may influence which installed library is 
actually used.  This is important in case there are multiple instances 
of the same library installed in different directories of the same 
system.

Bob
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