svn commit: r322328 - head/Mk

Gerald Pfeifer gerald at pfeifer.com
Sun Aug 18 13:22:55 UTC 2013


On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Log:
>   Add new LIB_DEPENDS syntax:
>   libname.so:${PORTSDIR}/devel/name
>   libname.so.0.1.2:${PORTSDIR}/devel/name
>   
>   This syntax is support to replace the old syntax and code which has multiple weakness:
>   It was replying on ldconfig -r which arbritrary limited our valid library to name of the following form:
>   libname.so[.X] where X can be a number
>   foo.3 could match both libfoo.3.do and libfoo.so.3

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html does
not appear to know about this change yet?

Gerald

PS: I find that we currently have several changes that our documentation
or tools such as portlint have not caught up with yet.  In the case of 
portlint I try to file reports as I notice those.


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