Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 19:07:14 -0600 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> To: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> Cc: freebsd ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: make delete-old-libs is your friend Message-ID: <CAP7rwcisyXSEHOQ5nteNqqVdMUhCYeV_B07wZzmZYS55=s7SvQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f55b2fc9-ab1b-7c33-f261-dd21e9b7020f@m5p.com> References: <f55b2fc9-ab1b-7c33-f261-dd21e9b7020f@m5p.com>
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 6:26 PM George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> wrote: > > But I forgot that, and ended up with both /lib/libreadline.so.8 > AND /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.8 on my machine, leading to woe > when compiling the latest lang/python36. Unfortunately, the base > version readline was quite a bit older than the one from ports. > > Nevertheless, the ports version is explicitly linked as > libreadline.so.8, the same as the old base version, so python36 > tried linking to the base version and failed because it did not > contain the new(ish) function rl_callback_sigcleanup. > > There's no question I shot myself in the foot by not deleting > the old libraries (an omission I have now remedied after a fair > amount of thrashing around to see what was wrong), but it might > have made my life a little easier if the port devel/readline > linked itself as libreadline.so.9 instead of 8. Is there a > recommended practice (or should there be one) to change the .so > version when simultaneously moving a base library to ports and a > new version? -- George libreadline.so is at version 8 because the current readline is 8.0. libreadline.so.9 won't come until readline-9.0 is released. We really can't deviate from that, because it'd still be v8 software; it'd be like AT&T's ridiculous claim that they invented 5G by discovering the number 5. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org
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