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| author | gdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org> | 2012-06-05 23:17:32 +0000 |
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| committer | gdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org> | 2012-06-05 23:17:32 +0000 |
| commit | 1badfb7764fbcd2e240ca09e577f8a4fa5e176bd (patch) | |
| tree | 4482f42d5a0c540f7bb1b37a99fd957df9ae2df2 /geography/geos | |
| parent | 60eb1210efe3432a11e952c34bccd15512509934 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-1badfb7764fbcd2e240ca09e577f8a4fa5e176bd.tar.gz | |
Adjust comments (only) about shlib versioning.
Upstream says using the C++ API is broken; document the policy and the
list of (broken per geos rules) packages that need a revbump every
time, currently gdal-lib.
Diffstat (limited to 'geography/geos')
| -rw-r--r-- | geography/geos/Makefile | 25 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/geography/geos/Makefile b/geography/geos/Makefile index 5d9de879c99..804924f6a62 100644 --- a/geography/geos/Makefile +++ b/geography/geos/Makefile @@ -1,17 +1,26 @@ -# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.17 2012/06/03 16:05:44 gdt Exp $ +# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.18 2012/06/05 23:17:32 gdt Exp $ DISTNAME= geos-3.3.4 CATEGORIES= geography MASTER_SITES= http://download.osgeo.org/geos/ EXTRACT_SUFX= .tar.bz2 -# NOTE: geos uses -release for versioning lib/libgeos.la, and seems to -# change the shlib name (not just the version, but the *name*) on -# every release. If this continues, a recursive revbump is required -# on every update. - -# This has been reported as a bug to the upstream mailinglist: -# http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geos-devel/2012-June/005860.html +# geos has two libraries: +# geos_c (C), which follows normal versioning rules +# geos (C++), which uses -release, and changes on every release + +# According to the geos project, the C++ interface should not be +# directly used and other packages should not link against it. This +# is currently underdocumented: +# http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ticket/553 +# http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geos-devel/2012-June/005860.html + +# Therefore, pkgsrc will perform a recursive revbump when the geos_c +# shlib version changes, and will generally ignore geos shlib name +# changes. The following packages incorrectly (from the geos +# viewpoint) link directly against -lgeos and should be revbumped on +# every update (and fixed not to use -lgeos): +# geography/gdail-lib MAINTAINER= gdt@NetBSD.org HOMEPAGE= http://geos.refractions.net/ |