cvs commit: ports/net-im/libpurple Makefile

[Doug Barton]

Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:19:37PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Wesley Shields wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:08:08PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>>>> Since silc is off by default (and therefore the package won't change),
>>>> was this necessary?
>>> There are two viewpoints to this:
>>>
>>> 1) The option is off by default so the package won't change, and thus
>>> PORTREVISION doesn't need to be bumped.
>>>
>>> 2) Not bumping PORTREVISION may cause the port to misbehave if it's
>>> built with old libraries.
>> I don't see the logic in this. The port works just fine right now with
>> the old libraries. Can you be more specific about the scenario you're
>> concerned about?
> 
> Per what I see, shlib version of libsilcclient was bumped during
> devel/silc-toolkit update.  Since net-im/libpurple explicitly depends on
> named library,

IFF you have that option enabled. It's off by default.

This is one of the main reasons I'd like to propose a replacement for
PORTREVISION/PORTEPOCH that can more easily be set within an optional
part of the Makefile.


Doug