----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Gareth Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 2:05 PM Subject: Re: RFC - a few packages
> > > Robert Collins wrote: > > > Dll number - there is a standard, and if you grab the hacked up libtool > > from chucks site, you will automagically create .dll's to that standard. > > > > > I don't think we can recommend that official ports be built with unofficial > tools (Corinna's sharutils requirement for openSSH notwithstanding). For > experimental ports, sure -- but not official ones, until one of the > following two things happen: I don't see why not... 1) the libtool scripts are contained within the source tree, no external packages are needed. Just like auto* are not needed to rebuild a package, unless Makefile changes are being made. (And even then libtool doesn't need to get refreshed. 2) The infrastructure libtool uses is the released binutils code. > b) we make your hacked libtool into an official package and don't wait for > Gary. This is an option, but I don't favour it. Rob
