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Re: TODO
From: |
Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: |
Re: TODO |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:19:43 -0600 (CST) |
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Doesn't this patch cause Linux to be more equal than other operating
systems, thereby causing free applications to be developed which won't
work anywhere else?
No, it just shortens the link line on platforms that support that.
The point of my statement is that many applications are developed
solely under Linux, but the authors expect them to be portable because
they use autotools and standard APIs. It seems that the shortened
link line will allow developers to not list the dependencies which are
necessary on some other platforms. The result of this is more
applications which don't compile and link outside of Linux. There are
an abundance of new Linux programmers for which Linux is the new
"Windows" (single operating system mentality) and have not bought into
the open systems concept. Given that these programmers don't have
experience with any other Unix system, and are unlikely to test on
other systems, it is useful if libtool helps aid/enforce portability
by any means available.
I do see that the explicit dependency list provided by libtool will
cause severe problems for Linux maintainers who need to maintain the
system incrementally. There is also the point that the libtool which
comes with a Linux distribution has likely already been hacked to be
more lenient. If FSF libtool becomes more lenient by default, then
there likely little actual impact.
Bob
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- Re: TODO, (continued)
- Re: TODO, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/11/15
- Re: TODO, Scott James Remnant, 2004/11/15
- Re: TODO, Jacob Meuser, 2004/11/15
- Re: TODO, Scott James Remnant, 2004/11/16
- Re: TODO, Jacob Meuser, 2004/11/16
- Re: TODO, Ralf Wildenhues, 2004/11/16
- Re: TODO, Jacob Meuser, 2004/11/16
- Re: TODO, Ralf Wildenhues, 2004/11/15
- Re: TODO, Howard Chu, 2004/11/15
- Re: TODO, Ralf Wildenhues, 2004/11/16
- Re: TODO,
Bob Friesenhahn <=
- Re: TODO, Daniel Reed, 2004/11/15
- Re: TODO, Jacob Meuser, 2004/11/15
- Re: TODO, Daniel Reed, 2004/11/16
- Re: TODO, Jacob Meuser, 2004/11/16
- Re: TODO, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/11/15
- Re: TODO, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/11/15
- Re: TODO, Jacob Meuser, 2004/11/15
- Re: TODO, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/11/15
- Re: TODO, Jacob Meuser, 2004/11/15
- Re: TODO, Scott James Remnant, 2004/11/16