Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:33:57 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: gena@NetVision.net.il, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: name for installed libxforms.a ... Message-ID: <199610140733.JAA21422@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> In-Reply-To: andreas's message of Sat, 12 Oct 1996 20:07:35 %2B0200. <Pine.BSF.3.95.961012200204.20077A-100000@klemm.gtn.com>
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> Hi ! > > I wanted to make a port of the TeX typesetting frontend Lyx. > It relies on the xforms package. > > It doesn't recognize that xforms is installed on my system, > because it's installed under a different name libxforms.a. > The standard name for this lib seems to be libforms.a. > > When browsing through the patches of the port I saw, that you > changed the name from libforms.a to libxforms.a. > > I think this namechange should be removed / reversed ... > > Other packages that rely on a libforms library will definitively > fail for the same reason ! Please change that or give me a good > reason for changing the name. > There already is a /usr/lib/libforms.a. Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ----------------------------------------------------
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