On 3/12/20 11:23 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-03-12 at 09:06 +0100, ha...@gentoo.org wrote:
>> As this native Win32 support is considered highly experimental still,
>> I
>> would like to apply the libtool patches for parity via elibtoolize
>> only,
>> without applying them in sys-devel/libtool itself yet.
>>
> 
> IIRC you need to do it this way, experimental or not: elibtoolize is
> needed for packages whose autotools have been generated with an old
> libtool (ie all of them for now). eautoreconf should call elibtoolize,
> so, after having this in elt-patches, better focus on upstreaming this
> in libtool itself so that the need for elibtoolize fades away with
> time.

Actually, sys-devel/libtool should only apply libtool patches that are
committed upstream already, to not confuse other distros and/or package
managers when package maintainers use libtoolize ('make dist') on Gentoo.

> 
> You will probably run into the same issues as in the old days with BSD:
> not all packages run elibtoolize and you do not have a sane way to
> force this besides editing ebuilds.

Yeah, we do face this issue in Prefix as well.

/haubi/

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