Re: [evolution-patches] [PATCH] All components, install private libs to privlibdir

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 22:26 -0600, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 11:02 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 19:28 -0600, Hans Petter Jansson wrote: 
> 
> > > This fixes bug #69583 (Evolution crashes when selecting any tab but
> > > Mail). It was happening on OS X. It's a bunch of patches for various
> > > evolution components that makes evolution install previously noinst
> > > libraries to privlibdir, so we can link them in dynamically. I'll write
> > > changelogs on commit.
> 
> > This seems a pretty extreme mess just to get around what are clearly
> > bugs in osx.
> 
> I'm of the opinion that the mess is already there, and we're partly to
> blame. This also happens in other BSD distros, see bugs 47102, 47862,
> 54279, 71316, 62337.
> 
> I've looked at alternatives, but haven't found a better way to get
> around this problem. Suggestions welcome.

Evolution is in some of BSD ports trees (at least 1.4.x is).  What are
they doing to get around the problem there?

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
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