Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:14:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: palm/pilot-link and hier(7) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007131212380.83128-100000@pawn.primelocation.net> In-Reply-To: <20000713105137.E2679@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Ade Lovett wrote:
> As some of you may be aware, palm/pilot-link is one of those
> horrible little ports that doesn't respect hier(7), and installs
> everything under ${LOCALBASE}/pilot/{bin,include,lib,...}
>
> Normally, I wouldn't mind so much, only I've come across a subtle
> problem.
>
> 1. install pilot-link.. ldconfig gets carried out on
> ${LOCALBASE}/pilot/lib so the shared libraries are available
>
> 2. build a port that depends on the shared library above.
> It will work.
>
> 3. reboot the machine. re-perform step 2. It will try and
> install pilot-link again, because it can't find the
> shared library, because it's not in the standard pathname
> list.
>
> Now, I can think of a few ways around this:
>
> (a) fix pilot-link to respect hier(7) and install in
> bin, include/pilot-link, lib, share/pilot-link etc...
>
> This is my preferred solution, I'm prepared to do the
> hackery, and at least get the gnomepilot ports hacked about
> to work with the proper set up, though others will need to
> work on the other ports.
>
> (b) have a post-install target on pilot-link install a bunch
> of symlinks from /usr/local/pilot/lib/lib* to /usr/local/lib
>
> This is what lesstif does, and is horrible (IMO).
>
> (c) Do nothing. Ok, I lied, this won't fix things. :)
>
>
(d) Do what mysql322-client does, install a script in
${LOCALBASE}/etc/rc.d like:
#!/bin/sh
#
/sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/pilot/lib
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