Am 22.04.2011 um 23:23 schrieb "Daniel Macks" <dma...@netspace.org>:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:12:20 -0400, Daniel Macks wrote:
> We've long had xft2-dev and fontconfig2-dev keep their headers and
> libraries buried in subdirs so that they do not mask system (x11)
> supplied versions of those same packages. [...]
>> Is it time to unbury these libraries?
>
> Along the same "get out of the dark ages for probably no-longer-needed
> compatibility situations that cause their own problems", should we also
> scrap the static libs? X11 no longer ships them and keeping them
> entails having some sort of inherited build-depends (vs relying on dyld
> runtime linking). I vaguely remember some package or two checking for
> libFOO.{a,so} as a ./configure test, so scrapping .a would make that
> not work, but if it's hardcoded for "static or linux only" it's already
> a bit broken?
>
Indeed; and broken in a way that makes it easy to detect / notice the
brokenness, and also to fix it. Whereas the current buried headers can cause
lots of subtle irritation and confusion.
So I am all for it :-)
Max
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