Re: Splitting out popt?

2007-06-02 Thread Michael Jennings
On Saturday, 02 June 2007, at 11:26:57 (-0400), Jeff Johnson wrote: > $(...) is a KSH (and posix) feature, "echo $LDFLAGS ..." works everywhere. Which would make Solaris /bin/sh pretty much the only place where it wouldn't work. And since I wrote it for Linux... :-) It was just a sample; I wa

Re: Splitting out popt?

2007-06-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 2, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Michael Jennings wrote: On Saturday, 02 June 2007, at 09:18:09 (+0200), Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: Please do not use Bash features in Autoconf scripts. Please use: LDFLAGS="`echo $LDFLAGS | sed 's/-pie//g'`" $((...)) is a bash feature. $(...) is not. $(...)

Re: Splitting out popt?

2007-06-02 Thread Michael Jennings
On Saturday, 02 June 2007, at 09:18:09 (+0200), Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > Please do not use Bash features in Autoconf scripts. Please use: > LDFLAGS="`echo $LDFLAGS | sed 's/-pie//g'`" $((...)) is a bash feature. $(...) is not. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.o

Re: Splitting out popt?

2007-06-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 2, 2007, at 1:45 AM, Michael Jennings wrote: On Friday, 01 June 2007, at 10:30:04 (-0400), Jeff Johnson wrote: (aside) Yes there;'s breakage wrto zlib building rpm on x86_64. I had noticed about 2 weeks ago (I don't normally have access to x86_64) and the fix is in some tree of mine

Re: Splitting out popt?

2007-06-02 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007, Michael Jennings wrote: > On Saturday, 02 June 2007, at 01:45:33 (-0400), > Michael Jennings wrote: > > > diff -Nur -x '*.orig' -x '*.rej' rpm-4.4.8/popt/configure.ac > > mezzanine_patched_rpm-4.4.8/popt/configure.ac > > --- rpm-4.4.8/popt/configure.ac 2007-02-10 08:57:2

Re: Splitting out popt?

2007-06-01 Thread Michael Jennings
On Saturday, 02 June 2007, at 01:45:33 (-0400), Michael Jennings wrote: > diff -Nur -x '*.orig' -x '*.rej' rpm-4.4.8/popt/configure.ac > mezzanine_patched_rpm-4.4.8/popt/configure.ac > --- rpm-4.4.8/popt/configure.ac 2007-02-10 08:57:27.0 -0500 > +++ mezzanine_patched_rpm-4.4.8/popt

Re: Splitting out popt?

2007-06-01 Thread Michael Jennings
On Friday, 01 June 2007, at 10:30:04 (-0400), Jeff Johnson wrote: > (aside) Yes there;'s breakage wrto zlib building rpm on x86_64. I > had noticed about 2 weeks ago (I don't normally have access to > x86_64) and the fix is in some tree of mine. cvs.rpm.org was > abandoned and rpm5.org was cre

Re: Splitting out popt?

2007-06-01 Thread Anders F Björklund
Matthias Saou wrote: I know, I know! Then one thing I could definitely do is help out documenting inside the rpm source tree *why* all of those "external" sources are included instead of being required. For instance, the reasons you give for zlib to be there seem more than okay, and most (if not

Re: Splitting out popt?

2007-06-01 Thread Matthias Saou
Jeff Johnson wrote : > I'll give you some build README fodder this weekend. I include internal > versions of "stuff" for reasons. I'd dearly love to see informed and > intelligent > choices being made while building rpm. It's not just "bloat". I know, I know! Then one thing I could definitely d

Re: Splitting out popt?

2007-06-01 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 1, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Matthias Saou wrote: Jeff Johnson wrote : [...] Wow, I wasn't expecting such a long and detailed answer :-) What purpose is served by a separate popt project? I got it wrong by writing "project", as I actually just meant splitting out the sources entirely, w

Re: Splitting out popt?

2007-06-01 Thread Matthias Saou
Jeff Johnson wrote : [...] Wow, I wasn't expecting such a long and detailed answer :-) > What purpose is served by a separate popt project? I got it wrong by writing "project", as I actually just meant splitting out the sources entirely, with its own separate releases. Maybe the popt CHANGES fi

Re: Splitting out popt?

2007-06-01 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 1, 2007, at 7:29 AM, Matthias Saou wrote: Hi, This is something I've always wondered... why is popt included inside rpm, especially since this is its original location. Actually popt was a separate project, and distribution with rpm has never been the primary usage case for popt. Th

Splitting out popt?

2007-06-01 Thread Matthias Saou
Hi, This is something I've always wondered... why is popt included inside rpm, especially since this is its original location. Wouldn't it make sense to make it a separate project, with its own releases? It even already has its own versions... Maybe I'm just missing something, in which case just