Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:00:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jbq@caraldi.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/95644: Document variable NO_FILTER_SHLIBS in the porter's handbook Message-ID: <20060412100026.4D32A60F0@vision.anyware> Resent-Message-ID: <200604121010.k3CAAJCU021390@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 95644
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Document variable NO_FILTER_SHLIBS in the porter's handbook
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Apr 12 10:10:16 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jean-Baptiste Quenot
>Release: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD vision.anyware 5.5-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE #1: Thu Mar 9 19:20:53 CET 2006 jbq@vision.anyware:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VISION i386
>Description:
There is no description of NO_FILTER_SHLIBS in the porter's handbook located at
doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml. The explanation below was
provided by Joerg Pulz <Joerg.Pulz@frm2.tum.de>. Thanks in advance!
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- book.sgml.orig Wed Apr 12 11:47:20 2006
+++ book.sgml Wed Apr 12 11:56:24 2006
@@ -3993,6 +3993,14 @@
library should have their <makevar>PORTREVISION</makevar> incremented,
to force recompilation with the new library version.</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>In FreeBSD, all libraries normally have only a major version number.
+ If your port installs shared libraries with long names (e.g.
+ lib<name>.so.<major>.<minor>.<patchlevel>), it may be
+ desirable to set <literal>NO_FILTER_SHLIBS=yes</literal> to prevent any
+ shared library name modification (e.g. minor number removal) by the ports
+ infrastructure.</para>
+ </note>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="porting-restrictions">
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