From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 13 20:07:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D15916A4A0 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:07:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A69B43F68 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:01:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 29982 invoked by uid 399); 13 Nov 2006 20:01:17 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.7?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Nov 2006 20:01:17 -0000 Message-ID: <4558CF0B.6010400@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:01:15 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061111) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Lucq References: <4558CB1E.50706@scanit.be> In-Reply-To: <4558CB1E.50706@scanit.be> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dinoex@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: graphics/tiff port X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:07:13 -0000 Daniel Lucq wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a question regarding the graphics/tiff port. > > In the makefile for this port, there is the line > LDFLAGS+= -lcompat > > Now I've had a look at the source code, and I cannot see anything in > there which would seem to require linking with libcompat. > > Maybe I'm overlooking something, but if libcompat is indeed not needed > by this port, I really would like to plead for removing of this line > from graphics/tiff/Makefile. > > Reason is that this -lcompat is being propagated via libtool into > sane-backends, and from there into something I'm trying to port, where > libcompat is causing me a world of grief (because it's causing > regcomp/regexec to be linked from libcompat, and regfree from libc). > > So, would it be possible to remove the -lcompat line from > graphics/tiff/Makefile? Pretty please? First off, you're likely to get a better response if you cc the maintainer of the port, which I've done for you. Second, what were the results of your testing the library built without libcompat? Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection