As a not-so-gentle reminder: if you are packaging shared libraries, follow the Shared Library Policy. No exceptions.
The name of a package that installs public shared library files *must* *must* *must* change when the install_name of the .dylib changes. I just spent over an hour debugging a weird linker error build because gnutls broke that rule in 10.3 and 10.4-transitional, with: --- 10.3/unstable/crypto/finkinfo/gnutls.info 15 Nov 2004 23:57:27 -0000 1.14 +++ 10.3/unstable/crypto/finkinfo/gnutls.info 29 Jan 2005 16:03:13 -0000 1.15 Files: - lib/libgnutls.11*.dylib + lib/libgnutls.12*.dylib Shlibs: << - %p/lib/libgnutls.11.1.15.dylib 13.0.0 %n (>= 1.0.15-1) + %p/lib/libgnutls.12.1.24.dylib 14.0.0 %n (>= 1.2.0-1) When this happens, everything built against the "old" filename becomes broken when the new-filename package gets installed (and vice versa), and that breakage can lurk quietly and propagate up through things that link against them. Recursively. Forever. I created a new "gnutls12" package for the new files, i.e., what should have been done originally. If you follow the policy, that's about all you have to do. But since that's not how it was done, I wound up spending another hour+ adding new versioned-dependencies for it and all packages that uses it at any level of their dependency graph to all such packages in order to make sure they build deterministically, link to files that actually exist, and have dependencies that reflect those files. And any user who keeps up-to-date with unstable gets to join me in this rebuild fest. This is not how I had planned to spend my afternoon. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
