Re: teTeX on HURD (Was: My Hurd speaks PostScript)
I just want to join the Hurd group. May I do one tiny change, just one,
just one, and I will not tell anyone. You have read the book, seen the
video, and got the tee-shirt.
Can other people join in? I do not want to upset people or push in on
their responsibilities. But, please may I join.
Chris
Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
> >>>>> Marcus Brinkmann writes:
>
> MB> On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 09:52:11AM +0530, Kapil H. Paranjape
> MB> wrote:
> >> I didn't incorporate libtool since: (a) I wanted to do the build
> >> with minimal changes. (sheer laziness ...) (b) The klibtool
> >> script said it was a modification of the libtool scripts so I
> >> didn't want to go into those modifs.
> >>
> >> But I suppose I should have tried.
>
> Please... never try to convert a package to libtool unless you have
> discussed it with the package's maintainer, and they say they want
> your help. As with any Debian package, there is no point in making
> major changes unless you know for sure that the upstream maintainer
> wants it done the same way that you plan on doing it.
>
> MB> Not necessarily. It's a good idea to keep changes minimal by all
> MB> means. I too was too lazy to investigate the diff between
> MB> klibtool and libtool, maybe it's a trivia, maybe not. It only
> MB> matters if the produced libraries are incorrect.
>
> The differences are probably pretty big, but I suspect they make
> compatible sonames.
>
> For those interested in history, Karl Berry was one of the people who
> was involved with the early development stages of libtool. He
> intended to use it for a TeX release, but libtool-0.5 (summer, 1996)
> was a bloated, shakey mess. I began a total rewrite of libtool,
> but I didn't think it would be ready in time for Karl to use.
>
> And so, I recommended that he scavenge code from libtool 0.5, and hack
> together his own script. That's what he did, and that's what klibtool
> is. It's simpler and more effective than his old shared library
> system, but it would still be nice to move TeX to pure libtool one
> day.
>
> Just make sure you do it with the maintainer's blessing!
>
> --
> Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@fig.org> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/)
> Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
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