Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem

[Fabian Groffen]

On 28-11-2008 09:05:20 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> > Argh. Nope libperl breaks and creates libperl.irrelevant.
>
> IMO this is the best thing that can happen on your platform, because
> sys-devel/libperl only is useful as a *shared* library (with 'soname'),
> because the static libperl.a is provided by dev-lang/perl (according to
> the comments in sys-devel/libperl.ebuild).
>
> When sys-devel/libperl provides the static libperl.a, you would likely
> have a collision in dev-lang/perl lateron.
>
> Eventually, sys-devel/libperl should generally be package.masked for
> FreeMiNT (as 'irrelevant', lol), or at least install nothing.
>
> NOTE: The whole tree as well as the dependency resolving within portage
> is designed for shared libraries: When there is a bug in one library,
> only this one package gets rebuilt with the fix, and binaries using this
> shared library will use the fixed one when restarted.
> There is no mechanism to rebuild packages which have the broken library
> linked in statically, so they still use the broken code.

I agree completely with this.

> > So I'm back to fixing readline, as I'm loathe to go fixing everything
> > this will break.
>
> It's not that I just don't want to change readline to *-aix*, instead I
> still feel having get_libname() on FreeMiNT returning '.a' simply is
> wrong - and doing it right as early as possible is better than doing it
> fast.

I just changed it for the moment, as I'm not confident myself what's
wrong or right.  I do feel the .irrelevant thing is the right way
though, for the reasons mentioned by haubi.

> > But I still need the patch below applying.
> > > in gen_usr_ldscript().
>
> This is ok.

I added that, even though I wonder why mint doesn't need a symlink there.


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level