Hi Jacob,
Jacob Meuser <jakemsr <at> jakemsr.com> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 08:50:56AM +0000, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Jacob Meuser <jakemsr <at> jakemsr.com> writes:
> > >
> > > the following patch for the libtool port changes library_names_spec
> > > to just '${libname}${shared_ext}$versuffix'.
> >
> > What's the rationale for this patch? Pointers to bug reports and/or changes
> > to ld appreciated.
>
> the rationale is to not have symlinked libraries. I am under the
> impression that this is not desired in OpenBSD ports/packages.
> I could be wrong, but I thought this "policy decision" was made
> at one point. that's why I asked for comments.
Could you point me to discussion about this decision (so I don't write
about stuff already beaten to death here)?
> in other words, it's not addressing a bug, but a "policy decision".
Hmm.
> I have a question for you Ralf. shouldn't running aclocal
> create/update aclocal.m4? this doesn't seem to work for me, which
> is why the port copies the patched libtool.m4 to aclocal.m4.
That's weird. Which aclocal version? The non-ancient ones support --force
which should always update aclocal.m4. Is the libtool.m4 in the source tree?
BTW, please Cc: me on replies, thanks (forgot that before, d'oh).
Cheers,
Ralf
