>>>>> On Wed, 03 May 2023, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> I wonder about the CONF_LIBDIR variable and the implementation of the
> dolib* commands in Portage. These commands normally use the ABI and
> LIBDIR_${ABI} variables from the profile to determine the library
> directory (e.g. "lib" or "lib64").
> However, if either ABI or LIBDIR_${ABI} happens to be unset, there is a
> two-stage fallback in place, first to the value of CONF_LIBDIR, then to
> literal "lib" [1]:
> LIBDIR_VAR="LIBDIR_${ABI}"
> if [[ -n ${ABI} && -n ${!LIBDIR_VAR} ]] ; then
> CONF_LIBDIR=${!LIBDIR_VAR}
> fi
> CONF_LIBDIR=${CONF_LIBDIR:-lib}
> AFAICS the CONF_LIBDIR variable had been introduced in the 2004.3
> profile [2], but was replaced already in 2005 by the present
> LIBDIR_${ABI} mechanism [3]. CONF_LIBDIR hasn't been assigned in
> profiles ever since.
> Presently there are some relics of CONF_LIBDIR in Portage's dolib* (see
> above) , but it is not used in its econf or get_libdir functions.
> Pkgcore doesn't use CONF_LIBDIR at all. PMS defines dolib in yet another
> way [4] with an additional CONF_LIBDIR_OVERRIDE variable, which isn't
> implemented in either of the two package managers.
> Clearly this situation is not ideal, because a) dolib* and get_libdir
> are not consistent with each other, and b) PMS, Portage, and Pkgcore
> don't agree with each other.
> Before we decide on possible ways to proceed with the issue, I want to
> ask whether anyone still relies on CONF_LIBDIR for any purpose?
> There is also bug 267159 [5] with some more details.
Nobody has spoken up, therefore I believe the best way forward is to
drop the variable, as suggested in bug 267159 [5] comment #4.
I have posted a patch for PMS to gentoo-pms (unfortunately, archives
still aren't working, but <20230505161017.7487-1-...@gentoo.org> is the
Message-Id). A patch for multilib.eclass will follow later.
Ulrich
> [1]
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/bin/ebuild-helpers/dolib?h=portage-3.0.47#n25
> [2]
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/archive/repo/gentoo-2.git/commit/?id=1482b856ad2a301c8eb2245a7c7265350af2691d
> [3]
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/archive/repo/gentoo-2.git/commit/?id=054e484d8717a18622615e019e7cd62495365192
> [4] https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/8/pms.html#x1-129001r3
> [5] https://bugs.gentoo.org/267159
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