On 27 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jan 27, 1999, Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 27 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >
[watch indenting carefully : I wrote this next bit, of course] > > In general, it is not useful to have multiple versions of the same > > package. > > You're probably talking about the single-user workstation model. I'm > talking about a networked multi-user model, in which some users need > (for reasons only they understand :-) particular versions of, say, GNU > Emacs and gcc installed. In general, such a situation only arises because of a bug in the software. That is why I say that, in general, it is not useful. > > Nonetheless, you are refusing to support it. > > I'm not refusing to support it. I'm just inclined to avoid having an > easy-to-use flag to disable explicit hard-coding of library paths > because: > > 1) it would be hard to make it behave correctly in a portable way (and > libtool would be useless if it were not for being portable); Special case-it for linux, if you will. Libtool has plenty of special cases as it is. > > 2) it should not be necessary if you play by libtool rules, i.e., you > pre-declare where libraries are going to be installed and keep them > there forever (or until they're no longer needed); > We don't want to play by libtool rules. We don't see that as a sensible restriction. [more information to follow in a separate follow-up] Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/