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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/4] elt-patches: support wrapped Win32 MSVC toolchain
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:23:13
Message-Id: f205916bddc652875374fcd935b1d2244120da35.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/4] elt-patches: support wrapped Win32 MSVC toolchain by haubi@gentoo.org
1 On Thu, 2020-03-12 at 09:06 +0100, haubi@g.o wrote:
2 > As this native Win32 support is considered highly experimental still,
3 > I
4 > would like to apply the libtool patches for parity via elibtoolize
5 > only,
6 > without applying them in sys-devel/libtool itself yet.
7 >
8
9 IIRC you need to do it this way, experimental or not: elibtoolize is
10 needed for packages whose autotools have been generated with an old
11 libtool (ie all of them for now). eautoreconf should call elibtoolize,
12 so, after having this in elt-patches, better focus on upstreaming this
13 in libtool itself so that the need for elibtoolize fades away with
14 time.
15
16 You will probably run into the same issues as in the old days with BSD:
17 not all packages run elibtoolize and you do not have a sane way to
18 force this besides editing ebuilds.
19
20
21 Alexis.

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