From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 19 17:18:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F48316A4CE for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:18:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rrcs-midsouth-24-172-16-118.biz.rr.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF3443D2D for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:18:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) i5JHHmAT053625; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:17:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: conrads@cox.net In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-WdqpBQob7TSjiWBy6stp" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1087665496.26427.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:18:16 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reducing GNOME's dependency on older versions of libtool X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:18:47 -0000 --=-WdqpBQob7TSjiWBy6stp Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 07:38, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > I've been upgrading some of my GNOME ports over the last few days, and > have found that, in most cases, changing USE_LIBTOOL_VER=3D13 to > USE_LIBTOOL_VER=3D15 does no harm whatsoever. It does a lot more harm than you think. A _lot_ more. There is work underway to remove the need for libtool13 as well as a lot of patches and hacks used by the GNOME ports. >=20 > I'm thinking perhaps an audit of the GNOME ports to determine which > ones are still depending on older versions of libtool may be a good > idea. There *may* still be a few cases where bumping the requested > version to 15 does cause problems, but for the majority where it > doesn't, it would be nice to remove this dependency on the older > libtool. Don't waste your time. This will all be sorted out in the near future. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-WdqpBQob7TSjiWBy6stp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBA1HVYb2iPiv4Uz4cRAvPUAKCpJSQrihvVInYL09OEKB77yuLoPgCdG22e TcEcRbF6YZhHgfJOUj4SjGY= =nAGA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-WdqpBQob7TSjiWBy6stp--