Thomas Danckaert <p...@thomasdanckaert.be> skribis: > From: Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add gctp > Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 16:33:12 -0400 > >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 09:07:54PM +0200, Thomas Danckaert wrote: >>> Indeed, I believe GCTP is not maintained anymore, and each project >>> using it makes a few small adjustments. From the changelog, it >>> seems GCTP was last changed March 1998. >> In this case, I think it's appropriate to use the bundled GCTP. What >> do others think? > > It's not a lot of work to submit a patch for HDF-EOS5 with the bundled > GCTP, but I'm afraid that other packages which depend on two libraries > that each bundle (a version of) GCTP (such as HDF-EOS2 and HDF-EOS5), > will run into problems. There would be either a conflict due to > multiple versions of libGctp, or, if we statically include GCTP in the > libraries that use it, conflicting symbols when we link those > libraries, no? > > For this reason, maybe using a separate GCTP package, and adding a > patch to projects that use it, is the best solution after all? > Development of GCTP and most packages that depend on it seems to be > mostly finished anyway, so maintaining the patches might not be that > much work.
Leo, what’s your take on this? It seems we’ve forgotten about this patch for too long already. :-) Thanks, Ludo’.
