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Re: Why don't you bother to apply patches to libtool??



Svante Signell, le Mon 04 Apr 2011 14:47:13 +0200, a écrit :
> On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 00:24 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, le Mon 04 Apr 2011 00:15:55 +0200, a écrit :
> > > Yes I'll try to fix the deplibs-ident2.patch for 2.4 when time permits.
> > 
> > The problem is not with 2.4, but with the content of the patch itself:
> > it changes things unrelated with GNU.
> 
> deplibs-ident2.patch is a combination of deplibs-ident.patch and the
> added code expecting a failure for GNU/Hurd.

Ah, ok, right, fine then.

> Since both patches touch
> the same file it was easiest to make a combined patch.

Agreed.

> Problems arise if
> it is placed before or after the original deplibs.-ident.patch.

AIUI It should replace it.

> > > Since the patches are tested for 2.2.10 why not install that version at
> > > debian-ports, until the patches works for 2.4. Current version at
> > > debian-ports seems to be: 2.2.6b-2 
> > 
> > Do we really need a more recent version?
> 
> I thought we should be up to date with the main Debian Sid packages.

Sure.

> Has anything changed with respect to that?

It's useless to take the buildd cpu time to make a debian-ports build if
the maintainer says he'll upload with patches applied anyway.

Samuel


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