[patch #41] Do all rm's in one command with --mode=clean

2024-01-29 Thread Ileana Dumitrescu
Update of patch#41 (group libtool): Status:None => Wont Do Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #2: The patch no longer

[sr #110674] Option --with-pic is a misnomer

2024-01-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Follow-up Comment #6, sr#110674 (group libtool): I have also verified, of course, that with the two patches the output of './configure --help' is as desired. ___ Reply to this item at:

[sr #110674] Option --with-pic is a misnomer

2024-01-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Follow-up Comment #5, sr#110674 (group libtool): Find attached two patches that fix the problem. I have verified them by * running libtool's "make check", * applying them to GNU gettext and verifying that (on FreeBSD) the generated libintl.a is compiled as PIC when --enable-pic or --with-pic is

[sr #110674] Option --with-pic is a misnomer

2024-01-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Follow-up Comment #4, sr#110674 (group libtool): Spreading confusion about what --enable-... and --with-... options mean is one of the problems. Another one is that, in the './configure --help' output, these options appear in the section "Optional Packages", whereas they belong in the section

[sr #110674] Option --with-pic is a misnomer

2024-01-29 Thread Ileana Dumitrescu
Follow-up Comment #3, sr#110674 (group libtool): Makes sense. We could change this after the next release. It does seem odd now that I'm looking at it. ___ Reply to this item at:

[sr #108637] libtool adds -rpath to staging directory

2024-01-29 Thread Ileana Dumitrescu
Update of sr#108637 (group libtool): Status:None => Done Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Reply to this item at:

[sr #110674] Option --with-pic is a misnomer

2024-01-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Follow-up Comment #2, sr#110674 (group libtool): > old versions that have --with-pic & not --enable-pic will stick around basically forever. Yes, we can't make old versions disappear. E.g. a search on codesearch.debian.net shows that 6% of all Debian sources still integration with libtool