From: Dr. Michael Weller (eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de)
Date: Fri 17 Jul 1998 - 16:14:29 IDT
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998 glennm@mediaone.net wrote: > > It is important of course, that it works well with a.out and ELF. > > Although a.out is pretty much dead, there are still applications out which > > libtool can handle a.out on its own. Hmm.. I can't believe it. This is a GNU applications, isn't it? a.out shared libs were never a gnu thing, this is a linux specific, and it is not maintained anymore, I doubt there is anyone out except me who still has a set of working tools to build a working a.out shared lib. (and I doubt it will work if I installed yet another new gcc) > > Yep, actually a problem is that there are many options just made in the > > makefile and they don't lead automatically to the right modules rebuild. > > In a sense that is a feature as it allows to keep an a.out shared lib and > > rebuild the ELF one in addition. > > I'm not quite following what you're saying here, sorry ... *grin* I was not too clear here, indeed, well forget it. A problem with emails is you just write down some thoughts, and in the end they don't make too much sense. > I'll put my current package on ftp://glennm.ne.mediaone.net/svgalib. > It's not quite complete: it compiles, but I havn't implemented the > documentation (automake handles installation of man pages, etc, automatically.) > That's relatively trivial, of course. > > You can get automake, libtool and autoconf from prep.ai.mit.edu, > by the way. Well, now, I know this sounds pretty arrogant, but it is simply how things are for me: I just don't have the time to do that. I understand you like these autoconf and stuff things and are on a 'holy mission' to tell anyone how good they are, and probably you are right. But after some time I understand the current Makefiles (which I didn't wrote) and was able to remove most problems with different versions of gmake and such, for even those plain simple Makefiles. I don't have the time to throw them away and write a new make procedure, regardless how nifty all these tools might be. I can only spent a few hours per week on this, and even this results in problems for me. I can't do anything else then collect svgalib patches at a central location. I can't go and collect tools and ideas from everywhere and hammer this together to get something working. I know this is bad for svgalib, as it will lead to no further development, but I just don't have the time and there is noone else willing to collect patches and keep an eye on support for the old a.out applications, so what. If you can send me a patch and it does actually work, I'm happy to add it, but I can't do anything more. I just don't have the time, sorry. Of course, also, I won't object if someone takes maintenance over, I'd be happy to be releived of this, maybe code some other fun stuff instead in the time spared. It should be someone who's really interested in keeping support for the already existing stuff too, though. Michael. -- Michael Weller: eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de, eowmob@ms.exp-math..uni-essen.de, or even mat42b@spi.power.uni-essen.de. If you encounter an eowmob account on any machine in the net, it's very likely it's me.
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