Timidity++ needs libarc as run dependency ??

Mateusz Piotrowski 0mp at FreeBSD.org
Thu Feb 27 00:46:01 UTC 2020


On 2/26/20 3:20 PM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 2020-02-26 13:18, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
>> On 2/26/20 10:55 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>> ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libarc.so.1" not found, required by 
>>> "timidity"
>>>
>>> pkg install libarc
>>
>> It looks like libarc is already included in LIB_DEPENDS. It is not 
>> included in the timidity++ package. It is only included with the 
>> timidity++-${PKGNAMESUFFIX} packages (like timidity++-emacs).
>>
>> I've never used timidity myself, so I am not sure why this is this way.
>>
>> Is there a reason why you installed timidity++ instead of one of the 
>> timidity++-${PKGNAMESUFFIX} packages?
>>
>
> No specific reason. I just wanted to test some MIDI files.
>
> And did "pkg instal xxx". Is timidity++ not a valid port/package?

It is a valid port. I am not sure why libarc is not a run-time 
dependency here. Maybe just an oversight.

I've committed a patch in r527232

Cheers,

Mateusz



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