Re: [patch/rfc] setting version type based on vendor

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Mike,

Please post patches to the libtool-patches list in the future, thanks.

* Mike Frysinger wrote on Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:48:52AM CET:
> i dont know if there's a policy on this, but we've been treating the shared 
> libraries in the Gentoo/FreeBSD port like Linux shared libraries.  we control 
> this based upon the vendor field in the toolchain tuple.

I have no problem with this, other than: the fact that it may create an
incompatible switch-over point for gentoo users, and the unwary may be
expecting for her libraries, built on gentoo, could be usable on other
(gasp!) FreeBSD (-like) systems, and also that GNU/FreeBSD distributions
other than gentoo (if there are any) should not be discriminated
against.  At least with GNU/Linux, the vendor field is completely useless
-- what about spin-offs of Gentoo for example, what do they use?

What do the others think?

Cheers,
Ralf

> 2008-02-16  Diego Pettenò  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * libltdl/m4/libtool.m4: Treat Gentoo/FreeBSD shareds libs as Linux.
>