El jueves, 29 de agosto de 2019, 0:06:49 (UTC+2), Dima Pasechnik escribió: > > > > Relying on patched bundled copies of dependencies is very much frowned > upon by distros. It would be much preferable to make this work with > unmodified libtool, which may be provided by the distribution. > > Well, libtool is just a shell script, more or less. NTL isn't unique > in shipping its own version. > Does Arch use its own libtool when building NTL, or the bundled one? > > Regardless of how simple if may be, bundling dependencies increases the risk of introducing bugs and inconsistencies between distro packages. On Arch we are building ntl using system's libtool. Anyway, whatever solution is adopted is not such a big deal since there is an easy workaround (pass LDLIBS='-lpthread' to configure) that distros can keep using - It would just be nicer to fix it without resorting to patched dependencies IMO.
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