Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass

2008-11-14 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Friday 14 November 2008, Ryan Hill wrote: [Snip more pie-in-the-sky] Show me the code, please.   If you weren't interested in hearing differing opinions, then why did you ask in the first place? :P I just thought it sounded like a tall order, saying that fixing libtool .la files

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass

2008-11-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:05:52 +0100 Peter Alfredsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just thought it sounded like a tall order, saying that fixing libtool .la files would take some weekends to do, when this problem has existed for so long, yet noone has been able to fix it in a way that causes less

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass

2008-11-14 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 00:05 +0100, Peter Alfredsen wrote: Anyway, we really need to start punting .la files one way or the other. For desktop users of our distro, they do a lot more harm than good. For embedded, perhaps static linking serves some purpose, but really, if you can't afford