Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Master plan for fixing elibtoolize

[Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>]

Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > If elibtoolize results in different binaries being produced, then it's
> > done wrong in the first place. AFAIU the primary goal of elibtoolize
> > logic is to fix issues on recent systems with outdated build systems.
> > Which is certainly not something that needs to be done for every user
> > out there.
> 
> You probably didn't have a look at what the patches fix. Having a
> quick look at patches there,

Where are those patches you mention?


> I could fine one fixing relink to old libs (from / instead of $D),

I have an open bug for this for a package, both in Gentoo and
upstream. It seems to be a problem with libtool itself, is that
about right?


> another one fixing parallel install. The former produces broken
> binaries, the latter none at all.
> 
> I seriously doubt this shouldn't be fixed for every user.

What "this" do you refer to? Sorry for the confusion, I want to understand.


//Peter