From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 10 18:30: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B89B37B400 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA8343E3B for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7B1U4JU055852 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g7B1U4uc055851; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200208110130.g7B1U4uc055851@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Sean Chittenden Subject: Re: ports/41436 net/spread did not build the shared libs Reply-To: Sean Chittenden Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/41436; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sean Chittenden To: Joshua Goodall Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/41436 net/spread did not build the shared libs Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:24:22 -0700 > > net/spread can be built to include shared libs but was not > > currently doing so. The included patch fixes this. > > Any particular reason why it's required? Yeah, I'm working on ruby-spread and it's preferred/ideal to use a shared lib instead. > All of the Spread applications I've seen use the static libs, which > the authors themselves recommend. Yup. For the reasons that Jonathan Stanton points out on the spread-users list, I use static libs sometimes too... it's just a PITA to upgrade spread and then have to recompile all programs that have spread libs statically compiled into them. > I'd rather they were installed as libspread.so to avoid potential > runtime conflict with the textproc/sp package but the upstream > doesn't care very much about this :) Hrm. That's a different issue that maybe I'll bring up in a few months time. :~) > OTOH maybe you have a demonstrable need for the .so's! Please > follow up. ping. ::grin:: -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message