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 1P20dF-0004WY-Qb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:52:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CB79E07E6; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:51:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.104]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7EF0E07E6 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:51:49 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgkGAL65pkw6B+nh/2dsb2JhbACUN44HccF0hUQEhE+IbxY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,271,1283702400"; d="scan'208";a="597658730" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([58.7.233.225]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 02 Oct 2010 19:51:46 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC4611DF87F6 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:51:46 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Nu7eIP1KYKOv for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:51:39 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.44.2] (rattus [192.168.44.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B2F81DF8970 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:51:39 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Notice: possible past, present and future breakage related to .la files From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1285800006.6591.313.camel@yamato.local> References: <1285800006.6591.313.camel@yamato.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Organization: Home in Perth! Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:51:39 +0800 Message-ID: <1286020299.8777.0.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8a84ba50-6bbd-4a5d-a08c-1fdd552488f9 X-Archives-Hash: 59d07e146d112f8bb91ecc1c26c8dfc9 On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 00:40 +0200, Diego Elio Petten=F2 wrote:=20 > Hi all users, >=20 > Secondly, you can avoid any future requirement for this by sanitising > the newly installed .la files; this can be done either by using the > (currently testing) Portage 2.1.9 series, or by adding the following > snippet to your /etc/portage/bashrc: >=20 > post_src_install() { > lafilefixer "${D}" > } >=20 A question I cant see answered anywhere though its been asked: What are the implications of adding this "snippet" - will it come back to bite us (users) when the next version of portage comes along? and in addition: - none of my systems have a /etc/portage/bashrc so Ive created them, but should they be executable, have a hash-bang line, ... ? - will this snippet fix the problems with "equery check" marking libraries as broken after lafilefixer is run? (I presume an emerge -e world will be needed to update the database ...) BillK