From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4Ngu-0005I8-AF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:25:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7849B1C02F; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:24:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.32]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431AB1C02F for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:24:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.87]) by qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Qob81g0071swQuc53pQDMx; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:24:13 +0000 Received: from ajax.firstbooks ([68.42.184.39]) by omta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id QpQC1g0120rR5no3bpQDLL; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:24:13 +0000 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:24:04 -0400 From: Frank Peters To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: No LibX11 Libtool Archive Installed Message-Id: <20110328212404.fc6fc658.frank.peters@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20110327221640.ce25fdb4.frank.peters@comcast.net> <4d900636.425bdf0a.0fce.6ade@mx.google.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.24.3; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: dceef72a000c751c2d9a4d13d685c5a5 On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:08:58 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote: > > FWIW, I've been using a PKG_INSTALL_MASK="*.la" setting here in my > make.conf for some time, now. That keeps portage from installing the > files entirely. > That's a good suggestion, but there is one minor problem remaining. Although I rely on portage to do all the "heavy lifting" for me, there is a small number of packages that I, for various reasons, still want to install myself -- and I'm sure there are lots of others that do this as well. These self-installed packages will often insert .la files into the tree, and, in fact, I believe that this kind of condition had caused my original ".la file not found" problem. So the .la issue is definitely something for everyone to keep in mind, and especially for those who may self-install an occasional extra package. Frank Peters