Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:35:40 +0100 From: Dirk Froemberg <dirk@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com> Cc: Dirk Froemberg <dirk@FreeBSD.ORG>, Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lesstif port doesn't install libXm.so.1 ? Message-ID: <19990218153540.A91060@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> In-Reply-To: <35943.919341439@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 02:37:19PM %2B0200 References: <19990218132825.A82178@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> <35943.919341439@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 02:37:19PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:28:25 +0100, Dirk Froemberg wrote: > > > I don't think the minors should be striped, since we're having a lot of > > people using 2.2.x. > > This means we're leaving a port's packaging details broken to keep > support of a legacy branch alive. That sounds like it's out of line with > our support policy for the ports tree. > > If the port can't package correctly for both, it should be made to > package for ELF. It is not so easy as it seems to be. 8-) bsd.port.mk handles PLIST conversion for aout and elf libraries automagically (see line 2207+). So if you install a port that has a library name with major and minor in the PLIST on an elf system the minor number is striped. Regards Dirk -- e-mail: dirk@FreeBSD.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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