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List:       fink-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fink-devel] autogen 5.8.4
From:       Jeff Whitaker <jswhit () fastmail ! fm>
Date:       2006-06-12 22:03:53
Message-ID: 448DE4C9.1020800 () fastmail ! fm
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Daniel Macks wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:36:13PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
>   
>>     Jeff Whitaker just pointed out to me that gcc4 can't be tested on Macintel
>> because autogen won't build with gcc 4.0. Looking at the autogen home page though
>> it becomes clear that we are using an ancient release (5.4.2) instead of the
>> current one (5.8.22) for fink 10.4. What is the deal with that? Even if some
>> other package has issues with the newer autogen it seems a bad move to make
>> any part of fink 10.4 depend on the gcc 3.3 compiler like that when a newer
>> version is available.
>>     
>
> In December, I asked the maintainer about it. IIRC, he said he didn't
> use the package himself anymore and wasn't sure when he'd have a
> chance to look at it. That makes it fair game for others to
> update. However, the update just committed:
>
>  Package: autogen
> -Version: 5.4.2
> +Version: 5.8.4
>  SplitOff: <<
>   Package: %N-shlibs
> - Files: lib/libguileopts.*.dylib lib/libopts.*.dylib lib/libsnprintfv.*.dylib
> + Files: lib/libguileopts.*.dylib lib/libopts.*.dylib
>   Shlibs: <<
>    %p/lib/libguileopts.0.dylib 1.0.0 %n (>= 5.4.2-2)
>    %p/lib/libopts.9.dylib 19.0.0 %n (>= 5.4.2-2)
> -  %p/lib/libsnprintfv.0.dylib 2.0.0 %n (>= 5.4.2-2)
>  <<
>  <<
>
> is fundamentally broken if I understand our Shared Library Policy.
>
> Given that other packages could link to the shared libraries supplied
> by autogen-shlibs, removing a .dylib from that package would mean the
> package needs to be renamed. Reasoning is that it's the same situation
> as when the version number embedded in the install_name changes:
> updating autogen-shlibs to its new version must not break other
> packages that Depends:autogen-shlibs.
>
> dan
>
>   
Dan:  You are right - I did technically break the package with the 
update.  However, AFAICT nothing in fink depends on autogen-shlibs, so 
in practice it should not be a problem.

-Jeff

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