[Developers] lib/sbin and lib/make patches, revised

[Tom Goodale]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Erik Schnetter wrote:

> On Wednesday 11 May 2005 12:12, Tom Goodale wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> these look broadly ok, although I'd like the variable intrfc to have
>> a more meaningful name, and also if possible only one return point
>> per subroutine as per the normal coding guidelines.
>>
>> Once you have sorted those out, please split into one patch per bug,
>> where possible, and commit.
>
> The part of the patch that changes the library link order should not go
> in.  See the earlier discussion about this.

It goes in.  It is purely for historical reasons - originally link order 
was also determined by inheritance.  It is not necessary any more, but at 
this stage of the release process I do not want to break old 
functionality.  This has been discussed on the mailing list and the weekly 
phone calls.

Tom