Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem

[Alan Hourihane]

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 11:01 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 16:37 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> <snip>
> > > > 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.
> >
> > Having get_libname() return .a on FreeMiNT makes things behave correctly
> > for the majority of ebuilds.
>
> What would really break when get_libname() does not return '.a'?
>
> IIRC, some ebuilds have a 'static' useflag.
> What if this is use.forced in the FreeMiNT profiles?

The -static USE flag in some of the ebuilds places some unnecessary
restrictions on FreeMiNT, which I'd probably end up having to workaround
anyway.

Plus, readline doesn't have a static flag. So it's a moot point.

> > Given AIX uses .a for shared libs makes me think that readline should
> > really be AIX specific and use CHOST == *-aix* rather than just globally
> > using != .a.
>
> /me just doesn't feel (yet?) get_libname() returning '.a' is really
> correct.

I feel it is currently for FreeMiNT.

If we can't make that change to readline (and libiconv), then I'll need
to revert back to suggesting...

[[ $CHOST == *-mint* ]] && 

with exactly the same "mv" command as I can't have static libs in /lib.

Alan.