On December 10, 2016 8:11:38 PM CST, Daniel Schepler <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Barius Drubeck ><[email protected]> >wrote: > >> On your switch from patching to packaging you lost me, however. > > >All I was trying to say is that in the case of some software that >doesn't >compile against the latest versions of the toolchain and other >dependencies, my first choice would be to avoid shipping it as part of >the >distribution. I was just giving mozjs-17.0.0 and openjade as two >examples >of packages that are in BLFS, but seem to be dead upstream and either >don't >compile or don't work without patching.
The thing that you must remember is that both of those packages you just mentioned have are different API versions. You'd have to patch packages to avoid using those versions, defeating the purpose. Douglas R. Reno --LFS/BLFS systemd maintainer Sent from my cell phone. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
