From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 14 00:53:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA08461 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 00:53:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA08452 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 00:53:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 9329 on Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:32:48 +0200; id JAA09329 efrom: marc@nietzsche.bowtie.nl; eto: UNKNOWN Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche.bowtie.nl (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA21422; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:33:57 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199610140733.JAA21422@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: Andreas Klemm cc: gena@NetVision.net.il, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: name for installed libxforms.a ... In-reply-to: andreas's message of Sat, 12 Oct 1996 20:07:35 +0200. Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:33:57 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 ----------------------------------------------------