On Jul 9, 2007, at 10:54 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:Hi Gary, On Monday 09 July 2007 17:47:13 Gary V. Vaughan wrote:All the world is not Linux. By not shipping libltdl at all, you'remaking life difficult for the users of hundreds of other platforms who will have to install their own libltdl just to build your package, which manywill likely decide is too much effort.well, my software works on linux, netbsd, freebsd, openbsd, dragonflybsd, debian/bsd debian/hurd, mac os X, solaris and windows, and i think I gotsuccess reports about aix and hpux, and embedded linux systems. I don't remember getting negative reports, so don't think the currentsituation without a copy of ltdl is bad. also at least two projects arelibraries used by other applications, in one situation the library is actually an implemention of an ABI plugin standard.Your approach is outright heresy. With this approach, users would simply install a copy of GNU 'autobuild' prior to building all other packages. This would result in no need for embedded autoconf, automake, and libtool in all the packages. Shame on you for suggesting such an approach. Go stand in a corner.
I'm not sure I understand why you're saying this. Did you mean s/no need/need/?
-- Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna EPITA Research and Development Laboratory
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