Re: patch for REQUIRES

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 08:56:01PM +0100, Filip Hajny wrote:
> No, there is a -c arg that bypass config files (i.e. what crle governs), but that only makes ldd fall back to the fixed system default, which is /lib:/usr/lib. Also, turning off default search path would also exclude valid linked libs on that path.
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> I take back the comment about multimedia/ffmpeg or devel/poco - I can't reproduce those any more. Also, I can't seem to trigger the issue on NetBSD - because I can't find a match between the native lib names/versions and their respective pkgsrc alternatives.
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> I *was* able to reproduce on NetBSD when I symlinked /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1 to /usr/lib/libbz2.so.0, which matches the version in the archivers/bzip2; that made it show up in REQUIRES. (An unlikely example, but still.)
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> So it seems to be largely a case on Solaris, where typically many more native libs are present, yet the user is likely to prefer pkgsrc packages. Do you have concrete objections to the patch besides "works for me" or "not needed on NetBSD"? Should I wrap in OPSYS-based conditional?

I think you have explained well enough why it happens on Solaris and does not happen on NetBSD.
If you've tested it on both, then go ahead and commit it.

Thanks,
 Thomas