13.10.2016 16:53, Ulrich Mueller пишет:
> 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
> 

Fine by me. I can not remember right now if i ever used dolib instead of
dolib.so or dolib.a(probably i did), but i do not see any caveats in
your arguments.

-- 
Best regards, Sergey Popov
Gentoo developer
Gentoo Desktop-effects project lead
Gentoo Quality Assurance project lead

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