Use of pkg plugins breaks the build of /usr/ports software

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:02:44PM -0400, John Wolfe wrote:
> Having built a pkg-plugin based on the pkg-plugin-template at 
> https://github.com/freebsd/pkg-plugins and adding
> 
> > PLUGINS [
> >         "x-adminsync",
> > ]
> 
> the plugin is working as desired.    Good so far......
> 
> I was caught off guard when later attempting to "make" something in 
> /usr/ports.  The builds fail miserably with multiple
> 
> > pkg-static: Loading of plugin 'x-adminsync' failed: Service unavailable
> > pkg-static: Plugins cannot be loaded
> > make[1]: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk" line 1206: warning: 
> > "/usr/local/sbin/pkg-static version -t 1.4.12 1.3.8" returned non-zero 
> > status
> 
> I would not expect that a static binary be able to load and use a 
> relocatable object so I am surprised that it even tried to do so. Even 
> so, a failure should be expected and not terminate the pkg-static process.
> 
> Is this a bug, works as designed?
> 
Hum probably both, I need to rework pkg-static so that it is not entierly static
but static for all but libc so that it allows plugins, Haven't done that work
yet.

What bothers me is that pkg-static should not even tried to load plugins so it
should not return any failure, that is a bug, I'll try to see fix it.

Btw I'm happy to see someone is actually using the plugin interface, I haven't
spent time on it since 1.3 and happy to see that I haven't broken it :)

I would like to hear more feedback about the usage of plugins, how good/bad it
is, how we could improve it etc, this is the first time I'm coding a plugin
interface I do not expect it so be good :)

Best regards,
Bapt
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