Re: [Elftoolchain-developers] my current list of workarounds to get elftoolchain to install on Ubuntu

[Steve K. <sg...@tr...>]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 07:33:51PM -0800, Daniel Wilkerson wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Steve Kargl
> <sg...@tr...> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:10:39PM -0800, Daniel Wilkerson wrote:
> >>
> >> Another major bug is using the name libdwarf when a libdwarf project
> >> already exists which you are explicitly imitating: you are basically
> >> violating his trademark.  Firebird changed their name to Firefox just
> >> because another project existed.
> >>
> >
> > Huh?  The project name is "The Elf Tool Chaini Project".
> > The fact that it contains a library named libdwarf does
> > not violate anything.
> >
> > Or, are you saying that all non-Dennis-Ritchie derived C compiler
> > must call their runtime library something other than libc?
> >
> If you install it in the global namespace as "libdwarf" and it
> therefore creates an anti-dependency on the original, then, yes, you
> have stolen the name of the previous project.  If instead you
> installed it under some elftoolchain/libdwarf, or maybe
> elftoolchain-libdwarf, that might be different.

So, do you have a libc and is that Dennis Ritchie's libc?
There's no stealing.  If this upset you so greatly, then
use the original libdwarf.

-- 
Steve