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

[Dave Reisner]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 02:26:39AM +0300, Mohammad_AlSaleh wrote:
> 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
> 

But it'll still be broken with regard to .SRCINFO generation.