Daniel Macks wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:36:13PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > >> Jeff Whitaker just pointed out to me that gcc4 can't be tested on >> Macintel >> because autogen won't build with gcc 4.0. Looking at the autogen home page >> though >> it becomes clear that we are using an ancient release (5.4.2) instead of the >> current one (5.8.22) for fink 10.4. What is the deal with that? Even if some >> other package has issues with the newer autogen it seems a bad move to make >> any part of fink 10.4 depend on the gcc 3.3 compiler like that when a newer >> version is available. >> > > In December, I asked the maintainer about it. IIRC, he said he didn't > use the package himself anymore and wasn't sure when he'd have a > chance to look at it. That makes it fair game for others to > update. However, the update just committed: > > Package: autogen > -Version: 5.4.2 > +Version: 5.8.4 > SplitOff: << > Package: %N-shlibs > - Files: lib/libguileopts.*.dylib lib/libopts.*.dylib lib/libsnprintfv.*.dylib > + Files: lib/libguileopts.*.dylib lib/libopts.*.dylib > Shlibs: << > %p/lib/libguileopts.0.dylib 1.0.0 %n (>= 5.4.2-2) > %p/lib/libopts.9.dylib 19.0.0 %n (>= 5.4.2-2) > - %p/lib/libsnprintfv.0.dylib 2.0.0 %n (>= 5.4.2-2) > << > << > > is fundamentally broken if I understand our Shared Library Policy. > > Given that other packages could link to the shared libraries supplied > by autogen-shlibs, removing a .dylib from that package would mean the > package needs to be renamed. Reasoning is that it's the same situation > as when the version number embedded in the install_name changes: > updating autogen-shlibs to its new version must not break other > packages that Depends:autogen-shlibs. > > dan > > Dan: You are right - I did technically break the package with the update. However, AFAICT nothing in fink depends on autogen-shlibs, so in practice it should not be a problem.
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