Every system has shared libraries and .a archive libraries. Not every
system has .la files. Therefore, I'd say the direction is obvious.
Jeremy had pointed out that it was only serf and neon that "required"
the .la files to be present for building svn. His change was intended
to bring the situation in line with the rest of our dependencies.
So. If his change *breaks* something, then let's hear about it and get it fixed.
Cheers,
-g
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 19:41, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:26:03AM -0700, Jeremy Whitlock wrote:
>> > Wasn't this known to cause problems?
>> >
>> > http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=17212
>>
>> I wasn't aware of this.
>>
>> > We need a comment in neon.m4, this change has been made and reverted
>> > multiple times already.
>>
>> Okay. The biggest problem to me is that there appears to be a lack of
>> conformity. What do we (Subversion) do? We don't have a requirement
>> either way so it's hard to make a decision either way. How do you
>> think this should be handled? Which is more right? Requiring package
>> maintainers to deliver the .la files or having Subversion work with
>> the shared libraries when using --with-neon?
>
> I don't know. You are right that there seems to be dispute over this,
> because some people think .la files are the way to go, e.g. redhat, who say
> debian had broken packaging. And some consider them the root of all
> evil, e.g. debian/ubuntu, who seem to frantically clean .la files from
> their system for some reason I don't know. No idea what other systems
> prefer, or whether they even do care.
>
> I think we have made a decision to require .la files back then.
> Quite possibly because we only listened to one side of the argument
> when it came up.
>
> Maybe we just need to change it so that everyone can have their favourite
> way (i.e. add a configure option to select what type of linking should
> be done)? That would at least keep us out of this stupid dispute.
>
> But as long as we're defaulting to one way, we should at least be consistent
> and stick to that. I guess that whenever we change the default, someone
> somewhere will need to make an adjustment to get Subversion to compile
> again.
>
> Stefan
>
>
Received on 2009-01-15 19:45:29 CET