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Date:      Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:04:18 -0500
From:      Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Jimmy Olgeni <olgeni@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www/neon pkg-plist ports/www/neon/files patch-ltmain.sh
Message-ID:  <20020310230418.GC4251@electricjellyfish.net>
In-Reply-To: <1015800125.527.61.camel@notebook>
References:  <200203102057.g2AKvhx56286@freefall.freebsd.org> <1015798632.527.40.camel@notebook> <20020310222434.GA4251@electricjellyfish.net> <1015800125.527.61.camel@notebook>

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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:58:59AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> This isn't entirely correct assertion, because .la file installed by
> libtool, whose behaviour in this area is system-specific. Therefore, in
> fact broken is subversion autoconfiguration system, because it checks
> for the presence of neon library using wrong way (just for the moment
> imagine that there is another fully compatible neon library, which
> doesn't use libtool and therefore doesn't install .la file). The right
> way is to test whether it's possible to link test application with
> -lneon, not check that there is a libneon.la file. Most of the ports in
> our tree do the right thing about this OOB, all those that don't should
> be fixed and the problem reported to vendor.

I see what you mean.  I will see what can be done about fixing the
subversion build system to search for neon correctly.

-garrett

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rooneg@electricjellyfish.net       doing stupid things, because that would  
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