Ports conflicts: `lib/libiberty.a'
Michael Nottebrock
michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Fri Oct 10 03:08:27 PDT 2003
Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello ports,
>
> Many my ports have conflicts with other ones.
> And conflicting file is one: `lib/libiberty.a'.
> This file is installed by many variants of gvv, binutils & gdb.
> But I don't think, that this library is ever used after instllation.
> Each port build it again and again.
>
> I don't think, it is good idea to "CONFLICTS=" all these binutils &
> gcc.
AFAIK libiberty is actually indeed forked across all those projects and
CONFLICTS would be correct. It all usually works out, but there's no guarantee...
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