Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: Summarizing the choices

2008-11-10 Thread Alexandre Oliva
card soldered to the motherboard can be replaced by a USB WiFi interface. So, if you consider seriously the introduction of a non-free-firmware repo, please take the opportunity to introduce a non-DFSG docs repo as well. Best, -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free

Re: can a kernel in main depend on firmware in non-free to work?

2008-11-02 Thread Alexandre Oliva
on it. the bundling is certainly more convenient ... for whom? Are both priorities being well-served by this bundling? Best, -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! = http

Re: can a kernel in main depend on firmware in non-free to work?

2008-10-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
by suggestions of more appropriate Debian mailing lists. Thanks in advance, -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! = http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: can a kernel in main depend on firmware in non-free to work?

2008-10-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On 28 Oct, 2008, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le mardi 28 octobre 2008 à 14:12 -0200, Alexandre Oliva a écrit : I hope the prevalent interpretation of Debian's rules and policies isn't so lax as to make room for such manipulation as packaging stuff in main that belongs in contrib

Re: can a kernel in main depend on firmware in non-free to work?

2008-10-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
positions and procedures. On Oct 25, 2008, Ben Hutchings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 18:28 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: My understanding is that portions of the Debian system that depend on non-Free Software, in spite of being Free themselves, belong in contrib, not in main

can a kernel in main depend on firmware in non-free to work?

2008-10-25 Thread Alexandre Oliva
and that led me to an incorrect conclusion? Thanks in advance for any enlightenment you may be able to offer, -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! = http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat

Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ‘lenn y-ignore’?

2008-10-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
at kernel.org. Thanks, and keep up the good work, -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! = http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: What hack in ld.so?

1999-02-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
be that, even if libraries that are part of Devian packages are properly installed in /dev/lib, they will not be found by Devian programs, because /dev/lib will not be searched. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com

Re: What hack in ld.so?

1999-02-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
this marvelous tool that is libtool... I'm pretty sure we'll be able to work it out :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org} Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-02-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
with the same soname is installed in the hard-coded path or in some directory the dynamic linker is configured to use, the user (or the packager) is asking for trouble, and that's what he'll get. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org

Re: What hack in ld.so?

1999-02-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
for users that have already upgraded to libc6. You'll have to do it at some time anyway, when standard distributors stop including libc5 in their default installations, so why not start doing it now? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org

Re: Debian's -rpath policy [was: What hack in ld.so?]

1999-02-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
listed in ld.so.conf (or just in sys_lib_search_path_spec, for a start). I'd implement it myself if I were not so much overloaded with academic issues. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org} Universidade Estadual de

Re: What hack in ld.so?

1999-01-31 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 30, 1999, Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: I agree there is a problem to be fixed, I just think that libtool is not the only piece of software that may have to be changed to fix it, because it is not the only piece of software that uses

Re: What hack in ld.so?

1999-01-31 Thread Alexandre Oliva
, though, to create a shared library with `-soname /usr/lib/libfoo.so.2', but then it becomes absolutely impossible to move the library around. There are times when this behavior is desirable, but libtool never does this, and there is no way to tell libtool to do it. -- Alexandre Oliva http

Re: What hack in ld.so?

1999-01-31 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 30, 1999, Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Thanks God I've got only one group of developers almost forcing me to change something that is correct, and whose change wouldn't even help them work around a problem they're facing. shrug I'm

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 29, 1999, Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Didn't we decide that all of the available alternatives that you have suggested are not a feasable solution (does this mail help make it clear why)? On 29 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: You may have missed the ugly one I

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 29, 1999, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 07:11:54AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jan 27, 1999, Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Therefore, we chose to solve that particular problem (the libc5-6 transition) by moving libraries around, knowing

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 29, 1999, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 07:27:28AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Does it? You mean, that hack in ld.so that adds /usr/lib/libc5 to the library search path in certain circumstances? The hack is incomplete, you just have to fix

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
the libtool script, after it is generated, so as to set hardcode_libdir_flag_spec to the empty string. The attached script should do it; just run it after configure in any Debian package and you're done. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org

Re: What hack in ld.so?

1999-01-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
it. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org} Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
directories listed in sys_lib_search_path_spec (but not in $shlibpath_var) in executables -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org} Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
in libtool, and a partial fix for it, by Edouard Parmelan, is already installed in the CVS tree. Hopefully, someone will soon be able to complete his work, based on the short description of what is missing he recently provided. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: What hack in ld.so?

1999-01-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
distributions would not run in any other, because /dev/lib is not listed in /etc/ld.so.conf, and libtool had failed to add /dev/lib to the rpath of Devian programs. Who's to blame for that? Of course, the solution is easy: adding the directory to ld.so.conf or to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. -- Alexandre Oliva

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 27, 1999, Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:22:09PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: 3) I don't want to regret having introduced a flag that caused as much or more trouble than -rpath; and I don't understand this comment. Which trouble with --rpath do

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
as it is. Not in the interface it presents to its users. Internally, it's obviously full of special cases to support all the crazyness of OS developers and their wonderful dynamic linkers. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org} Universidade

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
, but that could be avoided by modifying other pieces of software that are doing their jobs correctly. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org} Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
may be able to adopt it in the future, on platforms that support it. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org} Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
replacing a library with an (in)compatible version of it. Since you shouldn't do that, libtool is not the piece of software to be blamed for using -rpath. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org} Universidade

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
/libc5 first, right? Then why doesn't ld.so follow this rule, by replacing /usr/lib with /usr/lib/libc5 when it finds this directory in the rpath too? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org} Universidade Estadual de

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 29, 1999, Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: ld.so is trying to outsmart everybody, but it is not smart enough to do it. When you moved libc5-compatible libraries from /usr/lib to /usr/lib/libc5, you established a rule that, if any program was linked

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
to prevent having to move libraries in the first place: creating a libc6-specific directory right now, instead of installing libraries in /usr/lib and having to move them into another directory when libc7 should be released. However, Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] brings up an important point: -rpath

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 27, 1999, J.H.M. Dassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 17:07:30 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: You might have included my suggestion to prevent having to move libraries in the first place: creating a libc6-specific directory right now, instead of installing libraries

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
/local, and even then, they will only work on GNU/Linux. I want to avoid this situation at all costs. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org} Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 27, 1999, Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Having libtool default to -rpath is what's causing problems. This is IMHO completely backwards :-) When a program is linked with a shared library, a contract is established [...] If you move

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 27, 1999, Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Except that, if you replace the library with an incompatible one, you *are* breaking the contract. We don't replace libraries with incompatible ones. Oh yes, you are. We bring in new libraries

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 27, 1999, Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Having libtool default to -rpath is what's causing problems. This is IMHO completely backwards :-) You know, I seem to remember that there is another rather unpleasent side-effect of rpath

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 27, 1999, Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Can you tell -rpath to store the rpath for libmycustomthing.so and not for libc.so? No, but, on some systems (for example, GNU/Linux), it is possible to hard-code the full pathname

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
to use -rpath. As I have already pointed out, the solution is not complete, otherwise you'd not be observing any problem. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org} Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil