[pacman-dev] [PATCH 0/5] Use more auto in autotools

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Am 26.06.2013 07:01, schrieb Allan McRae:
>> One reason for this is that
>> we needed to patch ltmain.sh to properly handle -Wl,-as-needed, because
>> the Arch package maintainer refused to do so unless upstream accepts!
>
> So, you are patching ltmain.sh in pacman, because you refused to patch
> libtool in Arch to work properly with Arch?
>
> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/libtool/ -> Maintainer

Pacman builds just fine on non-Arch platforms, so this is only
partially in scope in that discussion.

-Dan