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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:29:34 +0100
From:      Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
To:        pav@freebsd.org
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/databases Makefile ports/databases/libmemcache Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <200411301129.41752.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <1101808328.38078.12.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>
References:  <200411300909.iAU99RI6078889@repoman.freebsd.org> <074899D0-42B3-11D9-9C6A-000A95C705DC@chittenden.org> <1101808328.38078.12.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>

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On Tuesday, 30. November 2004 10:52, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Sean Chittenden p=ED=A8e v =FAt 30. 11. 2004 v 01:34 -0800:
> > >> 2) pkg_version seems to want to shorten libmemcache.so.1.0 to
> > >> libmemcache.so.1, which is rather broken.
> > >>
> > >> I'm using the @unexec directive as a workaround, but it appears as
> > >> though there's a problem with pkg_version's parsing of pkg-plist
> > >> files.
> > >>   I haven't dug into this too much beyond noting there's a problem.
> > >> -sc
> > >
> > > That's not a bug, that's a feature. We don't do libfoo.so.X.Y on
> > > FreeBSD, we do libfoo.so.X only. Please fix your software :)
> >
> > Yikes!  You're probably not joking... but could you be?  Please?

It's not really a feature. It was introduced to help with the a.out->elf=20
transition, reasoning being that elf shared objects don't really _require_=
=20
the complete versioning to be represented in the filename and they'd be eas=
y=20
to distinguis from a.out libs with x.y.

However, the a.out days are past long enough now to seriously consider=20
allowing elf shared objects to have more freefrom (and possibly more=20
meaningful) names again (just like on that other OS). The main reason we're=
=20
getting away with our funny naming for elf shared objects so easily in port=
s=20
is that libtool deals with it for us.

=2D-=20
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