HEADS UP: devel/gnu-libtool is scheduled for removal in less than 2 weeks

[Vasil Dimov]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:25:03AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Friday, 19 May 2006 at 15:26:26 +0300, Vasil Dimov wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > devel/gnu-libtool is scheduled for removal on 1 Jun 2006, which is after
> > 13 days, but the following ports still depend on it:
> 
> MySQL AB uses gnu/libtool internally to build MySQL binaries for
> FreeBSD.
Hmmz, don't they use the databases/mysql* ports? Anyway switching to
devel/libtool15 should be flawless as the latter is now the same as the
upstream libtool and does not contain FreeBSD specific hacks (at least
this is what I heard :).

> Potentially so do other external developers.  It would be
> nice to have confirmation that the replacement works before removing
> the port.
> 
From the DEPRECATED=devel/libtool15 is now stock and should be used instead
line in devel/gnu-libtool/Makefile Ade makes it clear that
"everything should work" (tm). If it does not I guess you contact him
before 1st of June.

-- 
Vasil Dimov
gro.DSBeerF at dv

Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence.
                -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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