svn commit: r398236 - in head/devel: . libuutil

[John Marino]

On 10/1/2015 12:11 AM, Xin Li wrote:
> On 09/30/15 14:56, John Marino wrote:
>> Author: marino
>> Date: Wed Sep 30 21:56:08 2015
>> New Revision: 398236
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/398236
>>
>> Log:
>>   Add new port devel/libuutil
>>   
>>   libuutil is a library of userland utilities originating from solaris
>>   
>>   This library provides both a doubly linked-list implementation and a
>>   AVL tree implementation.  This has been a private library best known
>>   as a core component for ZFS and SMF.
>>   
>>   The performance is considered excellent.  As this has always been a
>>   private library, it is not well documented and there is no man page
>>   for it.  The best documentation is located in the source code and
>>   reading OpenSolaris/Illumos ZFS and SMF sources will help as well.
> 
> I don't understand.  Isn't this part of the base system?
> (/lib/libuutil.so.2)

It's not on DragonFly.  I didn't know it was publicly exposed on
FreeBSD.  There might be some minor differences between them, and the
port version has symbol versioning.  It is also so.1 so it won't clash.

> 
>> Added: head/devel/libuutil/pkg-descr
> [...]
>> +WWW: https://github.com/jmarino/libuutil
> 
> This is not accessible.  Github gave me 404.
> 

Fixed, thanks.

John