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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] prune_libtool_files() and pkg-config dependency
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:20:50
Message-Id: 503E950C.8060204@flameeyes.eu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] prune_libtool_files() and pkg-config dependency by "Michał Górny"
1 On 29/08/2012 15:16, Michał Górny wrote:
2 >>> > > Also, some people are probably going to try to get some pkgconf
3 >>> > > support directly into gcc, in form of '-something libfoo' to make
4 >>> > > it grab everything magically, I think.
5 >> >
6 >> > You have a future as a comedian.
7 > Sir, you are going too far.
8
9 I'm just saying that relying on something like that is a ludicrous notion.
10
11 Okay so somebody might actually try to do that, not going to debate that
12 — people have been out of their mind before.
13
14 But developers actually relying on it? I find it very hard, as that
15 basically means you're introducing build systems that only ever work on
16 a theoretical GCC 4.8 _and nothing else_.
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18 So can you see what makes me laugh in your statement?
19
20 --
21 Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
22 flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] prune_libtool_files() and pkg-config dependency "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>