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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Master plan for fixing elibtoolize
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:38:18
Message-Id: 20170322103801.116a5884@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Master plan for fixing elibtoolize by Peter Stuge
1 On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 19:29:36 +0000
2 Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote:
3
4 > Alexis Ballier wrote:
5 > > > If elibtoolize results in different binaries being produced, then
6 > > > it's done wrong in the first place. AFAIU the primary goal of
7 > > > elibtoolize logic is to fix issues on recent systems with
8 > > > outdated build systems. Which is certainly not something that
9 > > > needs to be done for every user out there.
10 > >
11 > > You probably didn't have a look at what the patches fix. Having a
12 > > quick look at patches there,
13 >
14 > Where are those patches you mention?
15
16 Those in ELT-patches...
17
18 > > I could fine one fixing relink to old libs (from / instead of $D),
19 >
20 > I have an open bug for this for a package, both in Gentoo and
21 > upstream. It seems to be a problem with libtool itself, is that
22 > about right?
23
24 With recent libtools it is most likely to be the package's fault, like
25 wrong/poor usage of autotools.
26
27
28 > > another one fixing parallel install. The former produces broken
29 > > binaries, the latter none at all.
30 > >
31 > > I seriously doubt this shouldn't be fixed for every user.
32 >
33 > What "this" do you refer to? Sorry for the confusion, I want to
34 > understand.
35
36
37 the bugs