Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 02:11:32 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) To: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/libz/pkg COMMENT DESCR PLIST ports/devel/libz Makefile ports/devel/libz/files md5 ports/devel/libz/patches patch-aa Message-ID: <199608200911.CAA01466@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199608191722.BAA15836@spinner.DIALix.COM> (message from Peter Wemm on Tue, 20 Aug 1996 01:21:59 %2B0800)
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* Note that I left the "SHARED_LIB_SUFFIX" rules alone, this seems to be
* what the tk port uses to generate it's name. Changing this will require
* larger changes around the place, as "-ltk41" will become "-ltk" and
* libtk41.so.1.0 will become libtk.so.41.0. Perhaps that's not such a bad
* thing anyway.
No, please leave these alone. We have discussed this on the ports
list before, and the conclusion was:
(1) Stuff in /usr/src should not use part of library name to denote
library version. The shared library version can take care of it.
(2) Stuff in /usr/ports that many other ports depend on should use
part of library name to denote library version. The shlib version
number should *not* be used for this purpose. (Just imagine
trying to link libtcl.so.7.3 when there also is a libtcl.so.7.5.)
This is because we have total control over what's in /usr/src, and can
update every part of the system to use the new version when we change
it. On the other hand, the ports tree is a mixed beast with a whole
lot of things depending on the older version.
* * *
That said, the existence of libtcl.so.75.0 as tcl-7.5 has caused some
problems in the ports tree. I'm not sure how well the stuff that
depend on tcl-7.3 works now, can someone check it? (Especially how
it's supposed to pick up the library -- since "-ltcl" now means
"libtcl.so.75.0", not "libtcl.so.7.3".)
Satoshi
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