On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:14:12 +0100 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi, everyone. > > Since the bug about libtool.eclass [1] has not received any > attention, I hereby declare maintainer timeout and start working on > improving the eclass. > > The main goals are to: > > a. stop requiring every single autoconf ebuild to call elibtoolize > manually (and effectively having half-'broken' repository), > > b. stop bundling the large number of patches with the repository, > > c. stop using hacks to find those patches. > > The planned steps are to: > > 1. split epunt_cxx out of eutils: > > 1.1. split the function into new eclass (PATCH already sent), > > 1.2. explicitly inherit the new eclass in all ebuilds using epunt_cxx, > > 1.3. remove implicit inherit from eutils, > > 1.4. move patches to a package and make the new eclass DEPEND on it. > > 2. move patches to a package and make libtool.eclass DEPEND on it. > > 3. copy elibtoolize logic to Portage, and make it apply implicitly > on econf [do we need to apply it elsewhere?]; disable explicit > libtoolize when Portage supports that. Define it in a new EAPI. Make elibtoolize die in EAPI supporting auto-elibtoolize.
