Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 22:31:23 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, garyj@muc.de, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: all those .la files Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903042229010.326-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <19990304172534.C85737@shale.csir.co.za>
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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Jeremy Lea wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 06:49:24PM -0800, Satoshi Asami wrote: > > Sorry if I'm smoking something wierd here, but I thought the original > > proposal is to have ports come with their own libtool to use > > ports/devel/libtool. > > > > That way we only need to fix one broken port instead of dozens, no? :) > > Yes, that was Kris's plan, which I'm beginning to like more and more... > I haven't looked at it yet, but if most ports are using libtool.m4 -> > aclocal.m4 -> configure, then we might be able to get away with > 'patching' via a sed script in bsd.port.mk (as a post-patch target), > rather than patching 20 million configures. They're not, most ports have their own captive ltmain.sh to create a libtool they have of their own, and will each of every one of them require patching to use a coomunity libtool. Why you'd want to go to all that work to memorialize a piece of broken software is completely beyond me. Libtool serves to solve *no* problems that we have, and manages only to add the .la files which we don't want. > > Regards, > -Jeremy > > -- > | What will people think when they hear that I'm a Jesus freak? > --+-- What will people do when they find that it's true? > | I don't really care if they label me a Jesus Freak, > | There ain't no disguising the truth. - d c Talk > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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