Hi! Ralf Wildenhues <> wrote: > Hello Mike, > > Please post patches to the libtool-patches list in the future, thanks. > > * Mike Frysinger wrote on Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:48:52AM CET: >> i dont know if there's a policy on this, but we've been treating the >> shared libraries in the Gentoo/FreeBSD port like Linux shared >> libraries. we control this based upon the vendor field in the >> toolchain tuple. > > I have no problem with this, other than: the fact that it may create > an incompatible switch-over point for gentoo users, and the unwary > may be expecting for her libraries, built on gentoo, could be usable > on other (gasp!) FreeBSD (-like) systems, and also that GNU/FreeBSD > distributions other than gentoo (if there are any) should not be > discriminated against. At least with GNU/Linux, the vendor field is > completely useless -- what about spin-offs of Gentoo for example, > what do they use? > > What do the others think?
I'm running a gentoo/alt-prefix inside Interix on Windows, which i think could also be titled gentoo, but for sure does not behave fully like linux :) Cheers, Markus > > Cheers, > Ralf > >> 2008-02-16 Diego Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> * libltdl/m4/libtool.m4: Treat Gentoo/FreeBSD shareds libs as Linux. _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
