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On Do, 2016-10-13 at 15:53 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I suggest that we ban the dolib and libopts commands in EAPI 7. |
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> |
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> Rationale: |
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> 1. There are about 60 instances of dolib in the tree. At least one |
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> third of them appears to be wrong (e.g., should be replaced by |
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> dolib.so for correct mode). |
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> 2. libopts affects only dolib, while the more special commands |
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> dolib.a |
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> and dolib.so install libraries with fixed modes 0644 and 0755, |
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> respectively. (The latter is also consistent with dobin installing |
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> with fixed mode 0755, i.e., there is no binopts command.) |
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> 3. There is no newlib command corresponding to dolib, whereas |
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> newlib.{a,so} commands exist. |
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> 4. libopts is not used at all in the tree, which strongly indicates |
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> that there is no need for it. |
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> |
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> Replacement: |
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> Use dolib.a or dolib.so instead. |
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> |
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> Comments? |
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> |
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> Ulrich |
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+1 |
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