Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:27:11 +0300 From: Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, kuriyama@freebsd.org Subject: Re: just say NO to explicit shlib numbers (Broken dependency on expat) Message-ID: <20060330072711.GA87198@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> In-Reply-To: <200603291411.46142.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200603291411.46142.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 02:11:45PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Amarendra Godbole wrote on Mar 29th:
> =I tried to build apache22 from the ports (/usr/ports/www/apache22/).
> =Now, the initial build failed, because of a broken dependency on
> =libexpat - as apache22 needed a newer version than the one I had
> =(1.95.*).
>
> This problem is what some committers continue to impose on the FreeBSD users.
> Apache22 does not care, which libexpat it is built against -- it would've
> been just as happy with libexpat.5, that Amarendra already had.
>
> Unfortunately, instead of removing the requirement for a particular shared
> library number altogether, kuriyama bumped it on Jan 30:
>
> revision 1.190
> date: 2006/01/30 23:20:03; author: kuriyama; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2
> Chase shlib bump of libexpat.
>
> This nonsense ought to stop. It is quite rare, that a port insists on a
> particular shared library version of a dependency. The number should not be
> explicitly specified in any other case...
>
> -mi
>
> =So, I forcibly deinstalled, and reinstalled expat2 from
> =/usr/ports/textproc/expat2/, and apache22 built and installed fine.
>
> =So far so good...
>
> =...but upgrading libexpat removed the original libexpat.so.5 link, and
> =put a libexpat.so.6...which caused all my X based programs, including
> =the window manager to break! X just refused to start, and so did many
> =other programs.
portupgrade -r expat would have saved you from the X breakage.
Otherwise you are right for the shared library versions.
--
Vasil Dimov
gro.DSBeerF@dv
Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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