Some ports not building shared libraries

[Rob Ballantyne]

Hi All,

  I ran into this while trying to install emacs.  The chain of
dependancies leads to package fribidi-0.19.2_1.  It seems emacs looks
for a shared library that is supposed to be built via this package.

  If I build:


mac# make install
===>  Installing for fribidi-0.19.2_1
===>   fribidi-0.19.2_1 depends on executable: pkg-config - found
===>   Generating temporary packing list
===>  Checking if converters/fribidi already installed
gmake  install-recursive


....

===>   Compressing manual pages for fribidi-0.19.2_1
===>   Running ldconfig
/sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib
===>   Registering installation for fribidi-0.19.2_1


everything works just fine but notice:

mac# ls -l /usr/local/lib/libfri*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  122646 Feb 18 13:53 /usr/local/lib/libfribidi.a
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     876 Feb 18 13:53 /usr/local/lib/libfribidi.la

And, now if I try to remove it:

mac# pkg_delete fribidi-0.19.2_1
pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/lib/libfribidi.so' doesn't exist
pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/lib/libfribidi.so.3' doesn't exist
pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package `fribidi-0.19.2_1'
(perhaps the packing list is incorrectly specified?)
mac#

Is this a known issue?  (I searched but couldn't find anything).

Is there a trick (standard or otherwise) to get the build to build the
necessary shared library.

(I've run into this on at least one other occasion but I can't recall
the package involved in that case).

Thanks for any advice!

Rob