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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Some focus for Gentoo
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:15:26
Message-Id: 20150115191519.79f79139@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Re: Some focus for Gentoo by Martin Vaeth
1 On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 06:53:30 +0000 (UTC)
2 Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> wrote:
3 > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
4 > > It's also not possible to
5 > > release dist tarballs using libtool that are built on a Gentoo host.
6 >
7 > Can you be more verbose on this?
8 > What will be different if you call "make dist" on a Gentoo host?
9
10 Gentoo's libtool has all kinds of patches applied to it. These patches
11 are included in the libtool code that's shipped as part of a dist
12 tarball. These patches are not necessarily portable.
13
14 There's a good explanation of one instance here:
15
16 http://blog.bz2.nl/2005/12/12/compiling-irssi-0810-on-solaris-10/
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh

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