Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem

[Michael Haubenwallner]

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 17:09 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 18:05 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > On 25-11-2008 17:02:11 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 17:57 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > > On 25-11-2008 16:53:19 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > > > There's a bug in the readline ebuild that says this...
> > > > >
> > > > > [[ $(get_libname) != .a ]] &&
> > > > >
> > > > > It should be....
> > > > >
> > > > > [[ $(get_libname) == .a ]] &&
> > > >
> > > > I think haubi did this on purpose, as AIX has .a for "shared libraries"
> > > > :(
> > > > It moves the "static" library out of the way, but if the platform
> > > > happens to use .a for that, it refrains from doing so.
> > > >
> > > > Haubi has the last word on this.
> > >
> > > Then I need to add....
> > >
> > > [[ ${CHOST} == *-mint* ]] &&
> > > mv "${ED}"/$(get_libdir)/lib{readline,history}.a
> > > "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/
> >
> > Hahaha... I knew this was going to break some time...  Let's see what
> > haubi thinks/wants.  Does mint have shared libraries, or just static
> > ones?
>
> Just static.

Ohw, no shared libs!
Wouldn't this require some (portage-)mechanism to perform a
reverse-dependency-rebuild based on {,R}DEPEND?

As far as I understand, get_libname() returns the extension used for
*shared* libraries (which on AIX unfortunately can be '.a').

What should $(get_libname) return when there are no shared libraries?

The test in readline just prevents moving 'lib*.a' out of /lib when it
(potentially) is the shared library.

When there are no shared libs at all, isn't it just wrong to have
get_libname() returning '.a'? Maybe it should return either the empty
string, or something like '.irrelevant' IMO.

/haubi/
-- 
Michael Haubenwallner
Gentoo on a different level