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* David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com> schrieb: |
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> > And for Distros, it doesnt make sense to try to support anything imaginable. |
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> Not breaking things that already work would be a decent compromise. |
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Any concerete example on what would break if .la files aren't |
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installed anymore ? |
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> > I'm now working in embedded area (where static linking is quite common) |
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> > for about 10yrs, and pkg-config has proven quite well here. (packages |
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> > that dont provide .pc-descriptor yet, simply have to be fixed to do |
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> > so ;-p). Libtool, on the other hand, always had been a nightmare. |
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> What about things that don't use pkg-config? |
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As said above: fix them. |
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> If you say "we don't support that, modify it to use pkg-config", |
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> does that mean you're willing to make Gentoo incompatible with |
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> Linux in general? |
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This doesn't have to do anything w/ Linux - it's an purely userland |
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(and build-time only) issue, applicable to dozens of platforms. |
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When it comes to Gentoo (and maybe other distros) we only have to |
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fix a few packages which don't use or support pkg-config yet, |
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but do libtool-based imports. In recent years, those became quite rare. |
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> (That question isn't just about .la files, it applies to any change |
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> versus upstream that affects interfaces between components.) |
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Are you sure, these .la files are really part of the interface for |
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most packages, but not just an side effect of using libtool ? |
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> Just to reiterate, I'm not trying to block anything here. I'm just |
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> asking for a small override so people with use-cases you (in general, |
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> not a specific person) haven't thought of can be happy. |
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In this case you'd need some kind of switch. Okay, let's just |
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introduce some make.conf variable for that and tell everybody |
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that there's no support for it whatsoever. |
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cu |
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Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ |
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phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weigelt@×××××.de |
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