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Ditto apr1 and aprutil1 (was Two identically-named libtool directories)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 14:22:51 -0500
- Subject: Ditto apr1 and aprutil1 (was Two identically-named libtool directories)
- References: <20090207185824.GA995@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 01:58:24PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>We have two libtool directories with two setup.hints in
>~release/_obsolete and ~release. This is causing problems. It seems
>like things have been like this since at least November and no one was
>complaining because upset threw out the _obsolete package in favor of a
>newer one thanks purely to the fragile sort order directory inspection.
>That has changed now thanks to last week's problems.
>
>People are complaining about getting out-of-date versions of libtool.
>Maybe I'll figure out the intent two seconds after sending this message
>but I can't see any reason to have two packages with identical names in
>the release so I have deleted the _obsolete/libtool packages.
>
>Looks like even error-checking for upset is in order.
Two more culprits.
I don't understand why these duplicate named directories and setup.hints
were created. Package names are supposed to be unique so it was
basically luck (and an upset bug) that the _obsolete directories were
quietly overridden before.
I've removed _obsolete/apr1 and _obsolete/aprutil1.
cgf