On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 03:36:14PM +0200, David Coppa wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Brad Smith <b...@comstyle.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 03:17:07PM +0200, David Coppa wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Brad Smith <b...@comstyle.com> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 02:17:47AM -0600, David Coppa wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Remove stupid hack and sync with devel/libev.
> >> >>
> >> >> OK?
> >> >
> >> > This should be using devel/libev not an internal copy.
> >>
> >> You're saying I should hack urxvt to use the external libev from 
> >> devel/libev?
> >> I could give a try, but I fear it would be invasive...
> >
> > That's fine. This is far from the first time ports have been modified to use
> > external copies of libraries because upstream didn't do things properly. 
> > Since
> > this is still a maintained and active project the port maintainer can work 
> > with
> > the authors upstream to have them add a proper autoocnf option to allow 
> > building
> > with a system copy of libev.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672396

Incredibly stupid, especially when the projects with the incompatible internal
copies are from the author of the library.

Taking that into consideration I'm OK with the diff until a sane and more ideal
solution can be implemented.

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