R: [ITP] talkfilters-3.8.1-1

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Nov 10 15:13:00 GMT 2009


On Nov 10 22:16, JonY wrote:
> On 11/10/2009 17:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >You didn't say in which stable Linux distro this package is available.
> >Without that info, your package needs five votes from other maintainers.
> >
> >Packaging looks good.  I'm just wondering why all the executables are
> >linked statically against libtalkfilters, rather than being linked
> >against cygtalkfilters-1.dll.  Don't eat your own dog food? ;)
> >
> >
> >Corinna
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I did not see it on the Debian side of things, so I thought there
> weren't any, but searching deeper shows some RPMs available on
> rpmfind.net, I'm not sure if they're third party RPMs, or part of
> the official distro repositories.
> 
> For Slackware: <http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.2/utilities/talkfilters/2.3.8/>

It's not in the distro itself, I just checked on the slackware home
page.

> The dll is made up of all the objects that forms the individual
> filter executables.

Yeah, it just looks like it makes more sense to call the functions
in the DLL from the executables...


Corinna

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