Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:31:36 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, andreas@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, scrappy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qt and mico-latest Message-ID: <19980725143136.A14108@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199807251147.EAA25109@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>; from Satoshi Asami on Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 04:47:37AM -0700 References: <199807251147.EAA25109@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 04:47:37AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> The qt131/qt133/qt140 split is not really functional because of shared
> library versioning. With both libqt.so.1.33 and libqt.so.1.40
> installed, ldconfig will not pick up libqt.so.1.33, and ld will always
> use libqt.so.1.40. This causes (for instance) the mico-latest port to
> @pkgdep on qt-1.33 while linking against qt-1.40. This is bad.
^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes.
> There are several courses of actions:
>
> (1) The tcl/tk route. Rename libqt.so.1.40 to libqt140.so.1.0 or
> something. The only feasible solution if we have at least one
> port depend on each of the qt versions.
Hmm...
> (2) Only use one of the qt's as dependencies and mark all the others
> with MANUAL_PACKAGE_BUILD.
Hmm...
> (3) Delete all but one of the qt's.
Would be easiest solution. How about backward compatibility ?
> I guess (3) is out of question as there should be a reason why you
> asked me to split the ports in the first place.
You wanted me to do so because of the TCL/TK version mess !
And I agreed. But possibly we have more luck with qt in terms of
backward compatibility.
> Looing at
> ports/INDEX, (2) doesn't seem to work either, unless all those ports
> that depend on 1.40 actually can work with 1.33 (or something like
> that).
We should ask in ports if nobody objects nuking the other qt libs.
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