Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem

[Alan Hourihane]

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 08:45 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 02-12-2008 01:30:40 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 20:27 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > !m68k-mint? ( sys-devel/libperl )
> >
> > O.k, is this the recommended way over having sys-devel/libperl
> > install /usr/lib/libperl.a ??
>
> From what I've understood from this entire conversation, MiNT has no
> shared libraries.  Hence, libperl can't possibly provide anything for
> you.  And in that case it may be better not to depend on libperl for
> MiNT.  If this becomes a maintenance nightmare (zillions of ebuilds
> depending on libperl) we may want to decide that libperl installs
> nothing on MiNT, such that the dependency can stay and is easily
> fulfilled.  But that's really just a lazy workaround.

Then feel free to add what you suggested to the ebuild.

Alan.