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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:54:24
Message-Id: 200508281250.40193.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass by Martin Schlemmer
1 On Sunday 28 August 2005 07:28 am, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
2 > On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 01:59 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Saturday 27 August 2005 03:38 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
4 > > > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 15:11 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 > > > > On Saturday 27 August 2005 02:58 pm, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
6 > > > > > Which reminds me .. anybody going to scream if I update
7 > > > > > elibtoolize() to be able to check if it was already run, and then
8 > > > > > bug the portage guys to also add it to econf() ?
9 > > > >
10 > > > > do what now ?
11 > > >
12 > > > Make econf handle elibtoolize the same way it does gnuconfig ...
13 > >
14 > > why ? this would help us embedded peeps with uclibctoolize, but other
15 > > than that ... maybe i just havent really sat down to figure out what
16 > > elibtoolize does ...
17 >
18 > Because it applies the portage/relink/whatever patches to ltmain.sh
19 > without the need for real libtoolize and the pains that comes with it
20 > and a autoreconf (due to missing macro's, broken build system, etc).
21
22 i guess if we can clean up the output to not complain when none of the patches
23 are needed ...
24
25 > Note ... I really don`t think uclibctoolize and the other stuff that was
26 > added is really appropriate in libtool.eclass, as they touch
27 > config.guess, etc .. maybe it would have been better to update gnuconfig
28 > to try and apply the patch if in uclibc profile?
29
30 uhh, uclibctoolize doesnt touch config.guess ... it only touches
31 ltconfig/configure because libtool does not know about uClibc and thus will
32 often disable shared library support when trying to build on a uClibc host
33 -mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>