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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) > Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
