Re: [gentoo-alt] interix preserve-libs

[Fabian Groffen]

On 21-07-2009 13:33:26 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
> i spent another few hours on getting this right. attached is a (way
> smaller) new version of the patch, making both interix and winnt work.
> the patch is written as such, that other platforms may be easily added
> in the future (i think of hppa-hpux and aix - i talked to haubi, and the
> format of the NEEDED.PFX.1 files is ok - if not, we can still
> change :)).

I actually don't understand why you took .PFX this time.  It seems this
stands for Prefix, as the python code is doing now too.  I don't really
understand what Prefix is different from ELF in this case.  It works
fine on Linux and Solaris ELF in Prefix.  So what was the idea behind
PFX?  I think ITX was better.  If it's really because you hate to waste
space in the python code on inventing new format names, you might better
call it ELFLIKE or something.  However, the MACHO case won't ever fit in
it, and we decided to split it off, because that also will make other
tools that read/use it fail because of file not found, instead of not
understanding the file format, or its contents.

So please consider this.  What's the benefit of squeezing them all into
one file/format?  Only if you're absolutely sure this is completely
compatible, and also for the future, without harming others, then it
could be done.  But on the other hand, giving each its own file name
takes not much more, especially if they share the implementation, but
allows easy upgrade/bump/migration if ever they /need/ to be
fixed/changed/etc.



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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level