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Re: relocatable.texi: remove mention of OpenBSD?


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: relocatable.texi: remove mention of OpenBSD?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:36:17 +0100
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Hi Reuben,

> doc/relocatable.texi contains the following text:
> 
> 
> >  Also, installation with
> > @option{--enable-relocatable} might not work on OpenBSD, when the
> > package contains shared libraries and libtool versions 1.5.xx are used.
> >
> 
> I checked, and the last version of OpenBSD to ship with libtool 1.5 was
> 5.0, support for which ended in November 2012. Perhaps this text can
> therefore be removed?

This text was written (see 'git annotate doc/relocatable.texi') in 2007,
that is, one year before libtool 2.2 was released. It was based on a
prediction about how libtool versions 2.x would behave [1]. Have you
verified that this prediction has come true?

Bruno

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-03/msg00011.html




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