ITP: libxml-simple-perl

XML::Simple is a Perl module that facilitates reading and writing Perl data structures to XML. It is especially useful for configuration files. It's licensed under the same terms as Perl. -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://fig.org/) Committed

Re: Neat gtk/gdk-imlib pain

ld some shared libraries, but every shared library-supporting package I've seen has its own mechanism, and none of them is clearly better than the others. I bet I could write a little shell script'' I guess it's up to me again (or whoever else feels like doing the dirty work) to f

Re: Neat gtk/gdk-imlib pain

all be running nice, compatible systems without any weird linker magic. There is apparantly an EGCS patch called libapi, available in the Debian egcs package, which is supposed to implement the above. Adopting and improving this patch would definitely solve your GNOME problems, Jim. -- Gordo

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

ks on other Linux systems? If so, we need to do something to fix the common cases (whether EWT's ugly patch, or not), and we can relax about packages that use `-rpath'. Comments are appreciated, -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom, unite! \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/) [Unfortunately, www.fig.org is broken. Please stay tuned for details.]

Ian's solution [was: What hack in ld.so?]

compile it on a libc5 Slackware and try to run ILT> it on a RedHat 5.2 system, it will work. His patch follows... -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom, unite! \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/) [Unfortunat

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

7; patches for egcs that were supposed to implement this automatically. Joel, can you comment on this (or somebody else who knows the details)? -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom, unite! \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/) [Unfortunately, www.fig.org is broken. Please stay tuned for details.]

voting instructions on the web [was: PLEASE remember to vote!]

hat describes the alternatives and/or results). Thanks, -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom, unite! \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/) [Unfortunately, www.fig.org is broken. Please stay tuned for details.]

Re: how rpm does it (Re: Dpkg Update Proposal)

auses people grief. Yes, dpkg is better in this regard. -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom, unite! \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/) [Unfortunately, www.fig.org is broken. Please stay tuned for details.]

Re: Libtool 1.2b static lib problems

able-shared OO> My static library apparently gets built but then gets wiped out OO> by libtool. The attached patch should work for you if you apply it to ltmain.sh. Good luck, -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom,