ports/160764: If libinotify is installed, net/avahi-app doesn't build

[John Hein]

The following reply was made to PR ports/160764; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Hein <jhein at symmetricom.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, michiel.ml at nlnet.nl
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/160764: If libinotify is installed, net/avahi-app doesn't build
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:08:51 -0600

 This probably breaks a number of other ports as well.
 devel/glib20 is another, for instance.
 
 For many of these ports that break when libinotify is installed,
 adding -linotify to LDFLAGS helps it find the library (and thus
 satisfy undefined references).  Whether that is the right thing to do
 (have a port built that actually uses this BSD incarnation of inotify
 successfully) for a particular port is a separate question, but it
 gets it compiling.
 
 In theory, devel/libinotify can be helpful for some of our ports now.
 For instance, devel/gamin could use it which may solve the problem of
 gam_server holding so many open file descriptors when using the kqueue
 implementation.