Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

[Alex Dupre]

Alexander Leidinger ha scritto:
> To achieve this goal we have 2 possibilities, either we install 
> everything into LINUXBASE and install a wrapper in LOCALBASE, or we 
> install everything in a safe location in LOCALBASE. The first part 
> requires that the maintainers of the linux program play some tricks in 
> their port (plist and/or Makfile). If they fail to do this, it increases 
> the load of portmgr from time to time (build failures on the build 
> cluster). In the second case (install into a safe place in LOCALBASE), 
> portmgr is out of the loop, as if something goes wrong, the port 
> maintainer and/or emulation@ is asked for help, as it is a bug of the port.

I admit that probably I'm using only one or two linux applications and 
I've never created a linux port, but I think the right way is the former 
possibility, the latter seems a hack to me. It could be harder for 
unexperienced maintainers, but once we defined the correct way to add a 
wrapper in LOCALBASE (and put it in the porter's handbook), I think the 
work for maintainers/committers should be quite easy. What are the other 
issues that make the former solution so difficult?

-- 
Alex Dupre