On Do, 2016-10-13 at 15:53 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I suggest that we ban the dolib and libopts commands in EAPI 7.
>
> Rationale:
> 1. There are about 60 instances of dolib in the tree. At least one
> third of them appears to be wrong (e.g., should be replaced by
> dolib.so for correct mode).
> 2. libopts affects only dolib, while the more special commands
> dolib.a
> and dolib.so install libraries with fixed modes 0644 and 0755,
> respectively. (The latter is also consistent with dobin installing
> with fixed mode 0755, i.e., there is no binopts command.)
> 3. There is no newlib command corresponding to dolib, whereas
> newlib.{a,so} commands exist.
> 4. libopts is not used at all in the tree, which strongly indicates
> that there is no need for it.
>
> Replacement:
> Use dolib.a or dolib.so instead.
>
> Comments?
>
> Ulrich
+1
