maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 248533] audio/libsndfile: Setting TEST=ON breaks compatibility with dependent ports

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Bug 248533: audio/libsndfile: Setting TEST=ON breaks compatibility with
dependent ports
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248533



--- Description ---
Ports including audio/libsamplerate, audio/pulseaudio and audio/twolame depend
on the shared library libsndfile.so, installed by audio/libsndfile.

However, with STATIC=ON, audio/libsndfile instead produces the static library
libsndfile.a.

Setting TEST=ON also sets STATIC=ON, I believe due to the following line in the
Makefile:
TEST_IMPLIES= STATIC

This means that libsndfile.so is not available for dependent ports.  I have
attached poudriere testport logs for audio/libsndfile with TEST=ON and for an
example dependent port audio/libsamplerate.

In my humble opinion, enabling testing during the port build should not break
compatibility with dependent ports.  Can testing be achieved in a different
way?

For now, the workaround is to build with TEST=OFF.