Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 1/9/06, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Building seperate shared and static object files is how most of the >>builds are performed. Forgetting to perform a make clean after >>builiding the shared lib can cause unwanted results. Gentoo's patch >>just brings zlib into compliance with the other packages out there:) > > > I agree that I'd like that it built like a standard package, but I > think this would set a precedent in LFS to make patches that perform > major surgery on the build system. This is what I don't like when you > go to the distros. There's 15 patches making non-trivial changes to > configure, Makefile.in, etc when the same thing can be accomplished > without them. If we're going to use this patch, then why wouldn't we > go clean up bzip2, too?
I agree with you Dan. The less intrusive the changes, the better. I always prefer seds to patches because they usually are more obvious and that helps the users understand better. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
