Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:14:59 +0100 (BST) From: mark@darklogik.org To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/100486: SDL port breaks compatibility in several ways Message-ID: <20060718141459.8456D6300@logik.internal.network> Resent-Message-ID: <200607181420.k6IEKDiE022620@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 100486 >Category: ports >Synopsis: SDL port breaks compatibility in several ways >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jul 18 14:20:12 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: mark@darklogik.org >Release: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE i386 >Organization: n/a >Environment: System: FreeBSD logik.internal.network 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:32:43 UTC 2006 root@opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 SDL-1.2.9 >Description: The libSDL port (devel/sdl12) has a number of problems. First of all, for apparently no reason whatsoever, the 'config' binary 'sdl-config' is renamed to 'sdl11-config' which breaks compatibility with the majority of build scripts unless they take extra pains to support FreeBSD (which precisely goes against the point of using SDL in the first place). Secondly, the port installs header files into /usr/local/include/SDL11 instead of the standard /usr/local/include/SDL, causing the same problems as above. The library names have also not been updated (and I don't think this has anything to do with the dynamic linker). So even though I have version 1.2.9 installed, the libraries advertise themselves as libSDL-1.1.so. Basically, the sdl12 port installs version 1.2.9 and calls it version 1.1. The config binary even states that it's linking against SDL-1.1, which is just basically incorrect: $ sdl11-config --libs -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -lSDL-1.1 -pthread >How-To-Repeat: Install SDL. >Fix: Don't rename the config binary, it can be queried for it's own version with: sdl-config --version Either install files into /usr/local/include/SDL or create a compatibility symlink from /usr/local/include/SDLwhatever. Use the correct version numbers for dynamic libraries so that applications can say: libSDL-`sdl-config --version`.so ..and get the correct libraries like they would on other platforms. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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