On 2013-06-13 15:07, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Hi, > > Here is a patch to fix LIB_DEPENDS. > > First what is/are the problem of LIB_DEPENDS. > > LIB_DEPENDS relies on of ldconfig -r to get its valid or not installed shared > libraries, problem is: > liba-5.2.so and liba-5.so.2 will both be a-5.2 for ldconfig -r, which is not > really what we want. > > secondly ldconfig -r is only able to print something for libraries in the form > of: lib<name>.so[.number], while we have no technical limitation to enforce > this > form and it is more and more common to find libraries in the following form: > lib<name>.so.major.minor.patch and to get them working properly right know we > have to patch the upstream build system, to send some magic tricks on libtool > etc, all that kind of things all of us loves to deal with. > > What I do propose is a new form of LIB_DEPENDS in addition to the current one: > LIB_DEPENDS= bla.so[numberwithlongorwhatever]:${PORTSDIR}/cat/bla > > What the framework will do, is lookup in all libraries directories for > libbla.so[numberwithdotsorwhatever] test if it exists (test -f also validate > the > symlink is pointing to a regular file) if /usr/bin/file is present on your > system it will validate the pointed file is really a shared library. > > Any review welcome: http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/fix-libdepends.patch > > This idea behind this patch is on mid/long term to remove the other > LIB_DEPENDS > forms. > > I do plan to commit this on next friday 2013-06-21. > > regards, > Bapt >
Hm, so this is a modern extended incarnation of the old LIB_DEPENDS notation For example pcre.3:... becomes pcre:... Isn't this something that can be handled with some additional code in pathfix? -- regards, olli _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"