[geeks] What is going on with the open source community ...the stupid bastards are clueless

[Michael C. Vergallen]

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Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
| On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Michael C. Vergallen wrote:
|
|> | So....it builds fine "the normal" way, which is presumably from the
|> | source tarball (which has the automake/autoconf/libtool cruft in it)
|> but
|> | not from pkgsrc?  How is this an autotools problem?
|> |
|> No ...only pkgsrc uses libtool to try and build the package where the
|> original  authors strongly advice against using it. The NetBSD poeple
|> are trying to so-called stream-line the build proces by forcing the use
|> of libtool  on all packages in the build tree.
|
| Oh my.  How...misguided of them!  FreeBSD and OpenBSD are proof that a
| very diverse ports tree can be effectively managed using little more
| than the POSIX shell and BSD make.  Why would the NetBSD people want to
| make life so difficult?
|
I4ve not yet contacted them on this issue but looking at the cvs commit
info it is becoming apparent to that a new guy is starting to work on
the pkgsrc tree and he probably thinks he is doing the right thing...

They should be carefull not to do this when the original package does
not allow this their is a good reason for it. The reason in this case is
~ obvious it just does not work on other platfoms besides NetBSD.. The
problem with the FreeBSD ports tree is that when I last looked at it it
didn4t have support for Solaris...has that changed yet ? Have not looked
at the OpenBSD ports collection. will have a look.

Michael.
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