Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc
To: Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
From: Nick Hudson <skrll@netbsd.org>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 03/06/2001 08:16:08
"Johnny C. Lam" wrote:
> 
> Nick Hudson <skrll@netbsd.org> writes:
> >
> > "Johnny C. Lam" wrote:
> > >
> > > Module Name:    pkgsrc
> > > Committed By:   jlam
> > > Date:           Thu Mar  1 18:29:27 UTC 2001
> > >
> > > Modified Files:
> > >         pkgsrc/mail/imap-uw: Makefile
> > >
> > > Log Message:
> > > Adapt to new libtool: the true PIC object files are now under the .libs
> > > subdir, so use those to create libc-client_pic.a.
> >
> > This is a bad idea... Depending on the internals of libtool is going to
> > cause problems later on.
> 
> I just wanted to get this to work again after the libtool upgrade.  I
> recognize that it's not good to depend on the libtool internals, but I
> wasn't sure what the optimal fix was.  Can you suggest a better way to
> fix this, as well as for x11/xforms?  For mail/imap-uw, perhaps we
> should create a way for libtool to generate *_pic.a libraries?

x11/xforms should probably just use bsd.lib.mk. Don't know what the best
thing to do for mail/imap-uw is because I haven't looked at it that
closely.

I'll take a look a bit later maybe.

Nick
-- 
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