[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: Implement 'autolibprovides' option

[Mohammad_AlSaleh]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 06:56:26AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 20/10/15 06:05, Mohammad Alsaleh wrote:
> >   The option tries to find all real (no symlinks) library names
> >   in the paths a compiler/linker search for by default. And add
> >   those libraries to libprovides.
> > 
> >   The option is disabled by default.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mohammad Alsaleh <CE.Mohammad.AlSaleh at gmail.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >  Side notes:
> > 
> >   1- I wasn't sure where to define the option. Since all options
> >      were moved to libmakepkg/tidy.
> > 
> >   2- A side benefit of this approach is that the developer does not
> >      have to guess what to put exactly in provides. A discussion from
> >      2.5 years ago:
> > 
> >      https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-May/017147.html 
> >      https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-May/017152.html
> 
> As I said in reply to those two years ago and previously when
> libprovides first appeared, I will not approve any automatic additions
> to the provides or depends array.
> 

Noted.

If anyone is interested. This patch is broken as it causes the original
provides to be deleted. A fixed version along with another patch that
implements 'autolibdepends' are available here:

https://github.com/MoSal/pacman

> Allan