Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Kurt Roeckx wrote on Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 07:47:32PM CET: >> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 05:54:48PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >>> By the way, why don't you submit the patches regarding the BSD changes >> Mainly because I have no idea if: >> - It's complete > > Looks good to me. > >> - What the difference between netbsdelf*-gnu and knetbsd*-gnu is. > > Joel wrote a bit about that in the upstream submission: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2004-04/msg00143.html
Still basically accurate.
>> - Does the netbsd port still exist?
>
> I don't know. Let's ask Joel.
It's been rather quiet, lately, but in theory it certainly does. Without
reviewing the entire patch set and issue, I'd say the following is a good
guideline:
1) netbsdelf*-gnu means:
* Debian standard GCC
* Debian standard binutils (including linker)
* NetBSD 'native' libc (and related; libm, etc.)
* Debian standard 'non-system' libraries
As such, I would be of the opinion that if applying the basic logic to prune
unused libraries causes a failure in anything under netbsdelf*-gnu, then it's
a (significant) bug in the netbsd port and should be addressed by the porters
(at the moment, that mostly seems to be 'me'). The only 'odd' library I know
of for linking issues is/was libc, in that older GCC releases had some logic
regarding whether to implicitly link libc on older NetBSD releases. I believe,
however, that this is no longer an issue, particularly in the Debian GCC
packages, since I recall writing patches to deal with it at the time, and I
think it has become a non-issue, since that point.
Other than that, I can work on making time to take a look at the patch more
intensively, if there's some doubt about it, but anything that actually
*works* for both Linux and kfreebsd*-gnu and/or knetbsd*-gnu is unlikely to
break netbsdelf*-gnu (one possible point of note is that the Debian NetBSD
port follows Debian library number conventions, not NetBSD ones - but that
should make things easier, in general, anyway).
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