Re: [Fink-devel] new gettext

[TheSin]

I disagree here, -dev should be all thing that should never be depended 
on and that are needed to build pkgs.  ie: %p/bin/%n-config should 
ALWAYS be in the -dev pkg.  I personally think we should find a way to 
correct this in gettext and make it done, even if it becomes a multi 
step solution.  I haven't had time to read or test any of this.  But 
saying no binary belongs in -dev pkg is not valid and will break all 
hopes of shlibs support in the future.

but if we need to make an other split for -dev-bin or what ever -dev 
should depend on it at least so one only needs a builddep on the -dev.  
Which will go against BuildDependsOnly, but i think it is necessary.
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On 6-Mar-05, at 9:55 AM, Jean-François Mertens wrote:
Hi Chris,
Cf below for an additional reason to revert to the layout of the 
current gettext pkg
(ie, -dev containing only the headers, *.a, *.la, and the final .dylib 
links, and all
executables in /sw/bin).
Further. I'm sure that in that case all switching problems disappear...
(I'm basically just arguing for maintaining strictly fink's 
traditional distinction
between -dev and friends, not necessarily against further splitting up 
-bin
(or even the others) according to a -Tools vs -Runtime distinction _ 
though I see
little benefit to the latter as compared to the likely additional cost)

Best,
Jean-François
On 04 Mar 2005, at 19:45, Jean-François Mertens wrote:
On 03 Mar 2005, at 17:06, Chris Zubrzycki wrote:
As per drm's recommendation, I followed the guidelines in the new 
gettext package, and made 2 splitoffs: Runtime tools, and Build 
tools. The Runtime tools i made into a library package and a binary 
package, and I left all the development tools in the development 
package. There is one thing, and that is that the build depend only 
utils for building other packages with gettext are now in the -dev, 
not in -bin. This is not a problem, as all packages that depend on 
the -bin also builddepend on the -dev.
But it makes it impossible for other packages to respect the 
BuildDependsOnly of libgettext3-dev.
A couple of examples, among pkgs currently in fink :
_ autoreconf calls autopoint
_ cicqsync (centericq) calls gettextize
_ intltool-update (intltool) calls xgettext
_ pozilla.sh (gtranslator) calls msgmerge, msgfmt
_ xgettext.pl (locale-maketext-lexicon-pmXYZ-bin) calls xgettext
Also it makes it difficult to detect, in every new version, hidden 
dependencies between -bin and -dev,
[eg the following I stumbled upon: the executable 
/sw/lib/gettext/user-email (in -dev)
sources /sw/bin/gettext.sh (from -bin)].
Adding any such dependency would make switching back and forth even 
harder.


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