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On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 14:48 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 08-08-2008 14:07:08 +0200, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: |
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> > I'd say use the GNU ones if gnulib detects they're better. |
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> Ok, does that mean gnulib currently doesn't install them if the platform |
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> has "sufficiently good enough" versions? |
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Exactly. |
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> > Iff it is added by default, we definitely need a way to disable this, |
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> > see below. |
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> > Question is how many packages break when it's added by default, compared |
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> > to how many packages need it. |
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> I wouldn't know what package would/could break. In the end they all |
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> "work" with GNU stuff on origin platform: Gentoo Linux. Of course the |
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> "smarter" packages always remain a problem. |
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Trying to define "smarter": |
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Packages that were ported to some non-glibc platforms, but without using |
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gnulib. |
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> > Now, when -lgnu is there always, we cannot rebuild gnulib itself, as |
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> > it's configure would detect sufficient "libc", and build an empty |
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> > libgnu.a. |
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> > This is the main reason why not to add -lgnu always, or the need to |
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> > disable it. |
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> Hah, that's valid, but if that's the only thing, I'm willing to either |
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> teach the linker wrapper some neat trick, or to have -lgnu in LDFLAGS |
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> only. (and disable this stupid --as-needed warning) |
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> Maybe Portage LDFLAGS *is* the best solution, as it is definitely |
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> something you rather don't have by default if you're developing software |
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> yourself (like our users might do), but don't really care about if |
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> you're just trying to get a package compiled (like we do). |
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Agreed, but question is if adding gnulib to LDFLAGS is done per-ebuild |
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(using an eclass function) or per-profile (bashrc fex). The per-profile |
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then needs some disable-gnulib() function. |
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Maybe we should just try 'emerge -e world' with bashrc adding gnulib on |
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several platforms? I'm going to try if I find time to do so... |
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Well, bashrc needs to be intelligent enough to not add it for |
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dev-libs/gnulib and also if gnulib is not installed (for bootstrap). |
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BTW, scandir/alphasort/etc are missing even in upstream-gnulib, so |
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they're still missing on solaris2.9... |
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/haubi/ |
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-- |
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Michael Haubenwallner |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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