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Re: forestalling GNU incompatibility - proposal for binary relative dynamic linking
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:13:16PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Edward Peschko wrote:
> >May I ask please, where there is a list of:
>
> Take this nonsense somewhere else. We have no time to educate people in
> compiling glibc and all that is involved. This has nothing whatsoever
> to do with development which is the sole purpose of this list. Find
> some other list where you can pester people with this.
No, but ease of the build process is definitely on-topic for a developer list -
as is the question: why (as per Dan) are 40-odd patches needed to build
glibc cleanly? Why aren't they part of the distribution itself?
As is the development of a compile farm which shows how to compile glibc on
different distributions, and is set up for automated testing. I'd think a lot
of people would be interested in that..
And I did suggest a feature to make it easier to have two glibcs in
simultaneous use on a given machine, and am still going to explore it
further.
May I ask a personal question - why do you think that 'developer' issues
are somehow isolated from the real world of compiling, building, and testing?
'configure' is part of the distribution too, is it not?
And don't you agree that making glibc more user friendly to build and test
would be a good thing?
Ed