Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: elibtoolize and when to drop it from an ebuild

2007-10-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 17 October 2007, Roy Marples wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 02:08 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > > I don't pretend to know much about elibtoolize but if it's so useful why > > it's not needed to always run it? > > Not every package uses libtool, or other GNU autotools. > Sometimes it ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: elibtoolize and when to drop it from an ebuild

2007-10-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 17 October 2007, Roy Marples wrote: > What's more, elibtoolize does more than just fix any FreeBSD issues as > it fixes stuff for uclibc and darwin based platforms. It also fixes some > old crusty libtools in packages that affect Linux/glibc installs too. you could consider these the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: elibtoolize and when to drop it from an ebuild

2007-10-17 Thread Roy Marples
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 02:08 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > I don't pretend to know much about elibtoolize but if it's so useful why > it's not needed to always run it? Not every package uses libtool, or other GNU autotools. Sometimes it has to be run in specific directories instead of just the topl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: elibtoolize and when to drop it from an ebuild

2007-10-17 Thread Petteri Räty
Roy Marples kirjoitti: > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 15:25 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> On 19:51 Wed 17 Oct , Duncan wrote: >>> What about putting it in an fbsd conditional? That way Linux users don't >>> have to deal with the step if it's unnecessary for them, while the fbsd >>> users still g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: elibtoolize and when to drop it from an ebuild

2007-10-17 Thread Roy Marples
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 15:25 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 19:51 Wed 17 Oct , Duncan wrote: > > What about putting it in an fbsd conditional? That way Linux users don't > > have to deal with the step if it's unnecessary for them, while the fbsd > > users still get it when they need it.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: elibtoolize and when to drop it from an ebuild

2007-10-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 19:51 Wed 17 Oct , Duncan wrote: > What about putting it in an fbsd conditional? That way Linux users don't > have to deal with the step if it's unnecessary for them, while the fbsd > users still get it when they need it. Seems to me this should be a > workable compromise, where people