libtool, OpenBSD, plugins, large breakage

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Marc Espie wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 08:26:14PM +0200, Michael Matz wrote:
> > > I really would like to know what the solution is.  Specifically, what's
> > > the deal with -module -avoid-version ?  Either I need to have a way to
> > > differentiate with stuff that will be used with dlopen, or linked in as
> >
> > Hmm, I really thought, that the various BSDs have patches for exactly this
> > problem in their ports tree.  At least I got the patches from someone from
> > NetBSD.
>
> Where do you think the patches come from ? someone has to write them in

Reread my mail.  I said that I have patches for that, just not looked at
them yet, partly because they mix several issues.  They are from NetBSD's
Nick Hudson and for KDE 2.2.  I also laid out the general solution, which
doesn't involve any libtool hacking.  Patches implementing that solution
for KDE 3 are welcome if you don't want to wait for me doing them.

> because those patches are dirty. Because libtool support of OpenBSD is
> not up-todate. Because there are always new versions, new snapshots of
> libtool, which are incompatible with the previous one.

Huh?  I updated KDE's libtool from libtool CVS just once in the last
months (must be more than a year even), just before KDE 3 some weeks ago.
Not exactly frequent.  And as said, for that specific problem (linking
against modules) no libtool work is involved.  Just changing some
Makefile.am's and possibly some small source changes.

> And frankly, I'm a bit fed up of that.

The tone of your mail suggests that, yes.


Ciao,
Michael.