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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: Remove add-ons mechanism
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 11:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d079cb89-4f6d-31a1-623e-277383d8fe3a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3368915.savkYuAEhr@porto>

On 10/05/2017 12:39 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2017, 19:49:28 CEST schrieb Joseph Myers:
>> glibc has an add-ons mechanism to allow additional software to be
>> integrated into the glibc build.
> [...]
>> libidn used to have separate release tarballs
>> but no longer does so, but still uses the add-ons mechanism within the
>> glibc source tree.
> 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libidn.git;a=shortlog
> 
> Doesn't look dead to me; actually the libidn inside glibc looks way outdated
> (before 2012 I think).

Joseph means glibc-libidn-2.3.4.tar.bz2 etc. available here:

   <https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/glibc/>

Their packaging is completely different from the libidn upstream releases.

Thanks,
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-05 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-28 17:49 Joseph Myers
2017-09-28 22:01 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-09-28 22:38   ` Joseph Myers
2017-09-29 11:04   ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-30  6:35 ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-30 21:42   ` Joseph Myers
2017-10-05 10:39 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2017-10-05 11:07   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2017-10-05 12:54     ` Joseph Myers
2017-10-05 13:16       ` libcidn (was: Re: Remove add-ons mechanism) Andreas K. Huettel
2017-10-05 13:39         ` libcidn Andreas Schwab
2017-10-05 13:40         ` libcidn Florian Weimer
2017-10-05 21:11       ` Remove add-ons mechanism Andreas K. Huettel
2017-10-05 21:30         ` Joseph Myers
2017-10-05 15:59 ` Joseph Myers

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