Re: dumb libcinfig?

> I have answered this question in #Linux on efnet's irc network from 94
> until 98 when I left that channel. And since in various other irc
> channels.
>
> In addition, as with all FSF copyrighted software a copyright
> assignment and waiver mist be signed and completed before any patches
> can make it into a GNU project. I have one on file from about 2001 or
> so, maybe a bit later to replace GNUstep's NSHost and related
> components to introduce a dual v4/v6 support into the networking code
> which I backed out on due to copyright concerns. I don't like having
> to sign away rights to contribute my time for free to any project.
> Different story if I'm being paid though.
>
> The GNU ld problem is one that should go away and should have a long
> time ago, but like I say, I won't give up my rights to make it happen.

> Regards,
>
> Jeremy Tregunna
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 2009-06-18, at 10:44, bblochl2 <bblochl2@...> wrote:
>
>> I am always interested in bugs ore faults of componenets, so as I
>> found the intersting posting of Jeremy Tregunna from Mon Jun 8, 2009
>> 4:42 am (Bug Report: "make install" on Ubuntu should run "ldconfig"
>> as final - on the iolanguage yahoo!-group) I tracked the net for GNU
>> ld, ldconfig and Jeremy Tregunna in any combination. I was surprised
>> how sparse the tracks and how secret his postings were, that he
>> started from 1994 in his own oppinion? (Jeremy Tregunna in his
>> posting of Mon Jun 8, 2009 4:42 am - Bug Report: "make install" on
>> Ubuntu should run "ldconfig" as final - on the iolanguage yahoo!-
>> group)
>>
>> The oldest posts are leeching posts from 1989, I could not find any
>> leeching or seeding befor 1998? (Topics: netscape problem ... The
>> CampGround 17 May 1998 17:37:59 -0000, problem with libXt.so.6... 2
>> Feb 1998 08:44:30 -0000) No one from 1994, not even befor 1998.
>>
>> Well, under that given circumstances I would not wave with a
>> contract. The net never foregtets any entry, even ones from 1994. I
>> recommend to qualify his statement yourself: "If I didn't have to
>> sign a copyright waiver, I'd submit a patch for more modern
>> behaviour." (Jeremy Tregunna in his posting of Mon Jun 8, 2009 4:42
>> am - Bug Report: "make install" on Ubuntu should run "ldconfig" as
>> final - on the iolanguage yahoo!-group)
>>
>> To my regret I found no usable hint for the possible source of the
>> weakness in ldconfig and I am still groping in the dark and so we
>> all still have to live with the dumb ldconfig.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> BB
>>
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