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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: elibtoolize and when to drop it from an ebuild
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:09:07
Message-Id: 200710290756.00564.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: elibtoolize and when to drop it from an ebuild by Roy Marples
1 On Wednesday 17 October 2007, Roy Marples wrote:
2 > On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 02:08 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
3 > > I don't pretend to know much about elibtoolize but if it's so useful why
4 > > it's not needed to always run it?
5 >
6 > Not every package uses libtool, or other GNU autotools.
7 > Sometimes it has to be run in specific directories instead of just the
8 > toplevel one.
9
10 irrelevant. automatic patching/updating of build files should be integrated
11 into src_unpack() just like gnuconfig_update was. ive pawned this off onto
12 Diego, but i dont know how far he got.
13 -mike

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