Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: elibtoolize and when to drop it from an ebuild

[Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 15:25 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 19:51 Wed 17 Oct     , Duncan wrote:
> > What about putting it in an fbsd conditional?  That way Linux users don't 
> > have to deal with the step if it's unnecessary for them, while the fbsd 
> > users still get it when they need it.  Seems to me this should be a 
> > workable compromise, where people might otherwise be inclined to remove 
> > it.
> 
> I prefer to avoid conditionals wherever reasonable, because then you 
> just have more code paths to test.

What's more, elibtoolize does more than just fix any FreeBSD issues as
it fixes stuff for uclibc and darwin based platforms. It also fixes some
old crusty libtools in packages that affect Linux/glibc installs too.

So just because you don't need it, doesn't mean that someone else
doesn't either.

Thanks

Roy

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