Re: [Fink-devel] nuking .la once and for all?

2009-08-31 Thread Martin Costabel
Jack Howarth wrote: [] Then perhaps we should just have fink cvs purge *.la files when the debs are created on x86_64 for now and see how well that works out. Considering that folks need to do a clean bootstrap anyway because of the Xquartz issue we might as well bit the bullet for

Re: [Fink-devel] nuking .la once and for all?

2009-08-31 Thread Jack Howarth
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:22:29AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: Jack Howarth wrote: [] Then perhaps we should just have fink cvs purge *.la files when the debs are created on x86_64 for now and see how well that works out. Considering that folks need to do a clean bootstrap anyway

[Fink-devel] nuking .la once and for all?

2009-08-30 Thread Jack Howarth
Considering that Apple's X11 developers are recommending that we tell user to nuke their installations and rebuild everything from scratch under Snow Leopard as well as never install .la files, why don't we take this opportunity to do just that. It may cause some minor breakage in fink unstable

Re: [Fink-devel] nuking .la once and for all?

2009-08-30 Thread Martin Costabel
Jack Howarth wrote: Considering that Apple's X11 developers are recommending that we tell user to nuke their installations and rebuild everything from scratch under Snow Leopard as well as never install .la files, why don't we take this opportunity to do just that. It may cause some minor

Re: [Fink-devel] nuking .la once and for all?

2009-08-30 Thread Daniel Macks
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:22:39PM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: Jack Howarth wrote: Considering that Apple's X11 developers are recommending that we tell user to nuke their installations and rebuild everything from scratch under Snow Leopard as well as never install .la files, why

Re: [Fink-devel] nuking .la once and for all?

2009-08-30 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 31, 2009, at 6:22 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Jack Howarth wrote: Considering that Apple's X11 developers are recommending that we tell user to nuke their installations and rebuild everything from scratch under Snow Leopard as well as never install .la files, why don't we take this

Re: [Fink-devel] nuking .la once and for all?

2009-08-30 Thread Jack Howarth
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:20:40AM +0900, David R. Morrison wrote: On Aug 31, 2009, at 6:22 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Jack Howarth wrote: Considering that Apple's X11 developers are recommending that we tell user to nuke their installations and rebuild everything from scratch under Snow

Re: [Fink-devel] nuking .la once and for all?

2009-08-30 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Aug 30, 2009, at 6:20 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: On Aug 31, 2009, at 6:22 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Jack Howarth wrote: Considering that Apple's X11 developers are recommending that we tell user to nuke their installations and rebuild everything from scratch under Snow Leopard as

Re: [Fink-devel] nuking .la once and for all?

2009-08-30 Thread Jack Howarth
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 06:50:42PM -0400, Daniel Johnson wrote: I've been cleaning the .la files in my library packages for a while now. I use perl -pi -e s/dependency_libs=.*$/dependency_libs=''/ %i/ lib/*.la in InstallScript, which just clears dependency_libs altogether. This is almost

Re: [Fink-devel] nuking .la once and for all?

2009-08-30 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Aug 30, 2009, at 7:23 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 06:50:42PM -0400, Daniel Johnson wrote: I've been cleaning the .la files in my library packages for a while now. I use perl -pi -e s/dependency_libs=.*$/dependency_libs=''/ %i/ lib/*.la in InstallScript, which just