Date: 29 Jan 2002 06:10:02 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> Cc: Tadayuki OKADA <tadayuki.okada@windriver.com>, Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>, freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dependency question Message-ID: <1012277407.45588.39.camel@notebook> In-Reply-To: <20020129034418.GA1794@gforce.johnson.home> References: <20020120205118.GA447@gforce.johnson.home> <1011565282.28534.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020120234902.GA74865@gforce.johnson.home> <1011573437.28534.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020121011015.GA20453@gforce.johnson.home> <1011575865.28534.39.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <3C518120.CB4F6E71@windriver.com> <20020128015959.GA4082@gforce.johnson.home> <3C552F9E.7284744A@FreeBSD.org> <20020129034418.GA1794@gforce.johnson.home>
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On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 05:44, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 01:01:50PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>=20
> > Glenn Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > How does one know what shared-libs are used directly? There are
> > > certain libraries that the author specifically mentions along with
> > > "must have Gnome-1.4" but the port links every library from gnome,
> > > gtk, bonobo, etc. I am pretty sure that not all of these are needed
> > > but they are linked into the binary. How can I separate the wheat
> > > from the chaff here?
> >
> > I'm fully agree with the sentiment above. ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/evolution
> > shows that the binary is linked with some 50 shared libraries
> > (!!!), so that it would be big PITA if we had to specify (and
> > maintain that huge list) them all in the port's Makefile. Instead,
> > dependency-checking mechanism should be extended to check presence
> > of all dependencies, not only those explicitly specified in port's
> > Makefile. See my ports/Tools/scripts/chkdepschain.py script and
> > GNOME_VALIDATE_DEPS_CHAIN knob in bsd.gnome.mk.
>=20
> I just stuck this in my port Makefile. I have ghostscript-afpl
> installed and so the dependency checking is failing because it is
> looking for ghostscript-gnu.
Perhaps we should add `WITH_GS=3D {gnu,afpl,whatever}' /etc/make.conf
knob, which would ensure that a correct dependency chain is constructed
and a correct version of gs is installed if it is absent.=20
> Should this knob be placed in all gnome ports?
Not yet. Right now it is an alpha quality piece of code. However, I'm
seriously considering to put it into some BIG ones, like Evolution,
Nautilus and so on, because this should drastically reduce number of
reports GNOME team receives.
-Maxim
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