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From:
Moritz Lenz
Date:
April 8, 2012 11:42
Subject:
Re: sound distribution practices
Message ID:
4F81DC0D.1030404@faui2k3.org
On 04/08/2012 06:53 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:09:30AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 03:23:26PM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
>> > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 09:08:21PM -0400, Andrew Whitworth wrote: 
>> > Btw, this also applies to NQP bundling full source of
>> > libtommath and dyncall.
>> 
>> We'll work on removing the libtomath and dyncall sources from NQP 
>> tarballs, or make it very easy for NQP to ignore those sources.
> 
> Thanks. As far as I'm concerned something simple as a Configure.pl option (say,
> --use-system-libraries) or an environment variable would do

Unfortunately from our point of view it's not that simple, because we
have some patches to those libs; we'll try to push them upstream, but
it'll take some time to do that and to get them all accepted.

Cheers,
Moritz

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