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Re: Amusing warning from x11/xf86-input-void
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:36:09AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> I am fairly sure that the warning does not appear for all packages, not
> even all libtool packages - if it did (either of those) then that would be
> a bug worth fixing, the warning (any warning) is useful only if its false
> positive rate is reasonably low - if it appears all the time, then it will
> just be ignored all the time, then it has no benefit, and would be better
> removed (less time producing the thing.)
The warning exists because the original failure case was not obvious
enough for many. I have forgotten how to tell libtool to only check e.g.
C, but it is the root of the problem here.
Joerg
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