Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 08:57:17 -0500 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Kojevnikov <alexander@kojevnikov.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, udo.schweigert@siemens.com, bapt@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shells/zsh links to devel/ncurses Message-ID: <20110303135717.GD48908@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimVt46gP_8b-Y2pxc_B3d7ZK=6bxmhXj-Gw8Apx@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimVt46gP_8b-Y2pxc_B3d7ZK=6bxmhXj-Gw8Apx@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:21:17PM +0800, Alexander Kojevnikov wrote: > If devel/ncurses is installed, shells/zsh links to libncursesw from > that port but doesn't add it as a dependency. > > To reproduce: > > 1. Install devel/ncurses > > 2. (Re)install shells/zsh > > 3. Run: > % ldd `shich zsh` > libncursesw.so.6.0 => /usr/local/lib/libncursesw.so.6.0 (0x8008f4000) > ... > > 4. pkg_delete devel/ncurses > > 5. zsh cannot start: > % ldd `which zsh` > libncursesw.so.6.0 => not found (0x0) > ... > > Re-building shells/zsh fixes it: > > % ldd `which zsh` > libncursesw.so.8 => /lib/libncursesw.so.8 (0x8008f5000) > ... > > To sum it up, shells/zsh should either not link to devel/ncurses or > list it as a dependency if it does. Thanks for bringing this up. I noticed it a while ago but forgot to mail the maintainer. While we are on the subject of silent dependencies, mail/mutt-devel links with ncurses silently too. I've attached the maintainer of mutt-devel to this mail so he can hopefully work up a patch. -- WXS
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