[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: Implement 'autolibprovides' option
Dave Reisner
d at falconindy.com
Mon Oct 19 23:34:10 UTC 2015
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.
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