gvfs on FreeBSD 10 fails to build

[Kevin Oberman]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Boris Samorodov <bsam at passap.ru> wrote:

> 26.11.2013 13:41, Johan Hendriks пишет:
> > Boris Samorodov schreef:
> >> 26.11.2013 11:55, Johan Hendriks пишет:
> >>
> >>> Hello all, I just updated my FreeBSD 9 Stable machine to FreeBSD 10
> >>> Stable.
> >>>
> >>> I am now in the proces of rebuilding all ports.
> >>> First I  noticed that libiconv was not needed anymore from ports so I
> >>> deleted that port.
> >>>
> >>> But on devel/gvfs I get an error.
> >> It's not enough just to remove converters/libiconv. For more information
> >> please take a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING.
> >>
> > I did go through /usr/ports/UPDATING, but not far enough :D
> >
> > Well the problem now is that i can not create a list of ports to
> > reinstall anymore because i already did remove libiconv.
>
> You may want to use pkg_libchk from sysutils/bsdadminscropts
> to detect those files/libraries which depends upon libiconv.
>

Possibly hijacking the thread, but isn't it time that pkg_libchk was made a
part of the base system? It comes up over and over as a tool to simplify
dealing with dealing with shareable library version bumps and even more
important for dealing with the problem seen here. It's a fairly simple,
well written, maintainable shell script, so will run with no dependencies.
I can't think of any reason not to include it in the base system.

Checking for issues with shareable libraries is an obvious requirement for
maintaining a system and doing so without a tool like pkg_libchk is
unnecessarily tedious and painful.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com