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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:47:10 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Tricky porting -- libmcrypt
Message-ID:  <200003311647.IAA39756@medusa.kfu.com>

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I'm the maintainer of the libmcrypt port, and after much neglect, I
am in the throwes of updating the port to 2.4.0 (and there was much rejoicing).

Alas, the beast has become far more complicated than it once was.
It is now a base library and a collection of modules. It even builds
a thing called libltdl which looks like a portable dlopen() type
library. I need some porting wisdom as to how to handle this.

First, for some bizarre reason libltdl/Makefile defines INSTALL as ../
which breaks 'make install'. None of the other Makefiles seem to suffer
this disease, and I'm at a loss to find out what happened.

Looking at the source, it does sort of appear that something like
either libltdl or a bunch of #defines would be neccessary for
libmcrypt to work, but it appears that libltdl is part of libtool, maybe?
Should I install this library or not? Should I have some sort of
LIBDEPEND for it? Does any other port use it?

The 2.4 distfile is at
http://hq.hellug.gr/~mcrypt/lib/libmcrypt-2.4.0.tar.gz
if anyone wants to see what I see.



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