Help with versioning scheme

[Adam Weinberger]

> On 17 Jan, 2018, at 11:29, Martin Waschbüsch <martin at waschbuesch.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Adam,
>> Am 17.01.2018 um 19:19 schrieb Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org>:
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> You don't want to use the upstream version to represent PORTREVISION.  
>> PORTREVISION is for when you need to force rebuilds of the port itself,  
>> and so tying it to upstream would make it impossible to bump it  
>> ourselves.
>>
>> Why do you need to ignore the fourth digit? It's perfectly valid for our  
>> purposes.
>
> So far, I had (because it coincided with their version number) used it to  
> provide SO_VER. But that breaks now:
>
> ---
> # Created by: adamw
> # $FreeBSD: head/archivers/liblz4/Makefile 448415 2017-08-20 12:30:25Z  
> sunpoet $
>
> PORTNAME=       lz4
> PORTVERSION=    1.8.1
> DISTVERSIONPREFIX=      v
> PORTEPOCH=      1
> CATEGORIES=     archivers
> PKGNAMEPREFIX=  lib
>
> MAINTAINER=     martin at waschbuesch.de
> COMMENT=        LZ4 compression library, lossless and very fast
>
> LICENSE=        BSD2CLAUSE GPLv2
> LICENSE_COMB=   multi
>
> USES=           gmake pathfix pkgconfig
> USE_GITHUB=     yes
> USE_LDCONFIG=   yes
> #PATHFIX_MAKEFILEIN=    Makefile
>
> ALL_TARGET=     default         # don't remove this
> SO_VER=         ${PORTVERSION}
> PLIST_SUB+=     SO_VER=${SO_VER} SO_VER_MAJ=${SO_VER:R:R}
> LIBDIR=         ${PREFIX}/lib
>
> post-patch:
>         @${FIND} ${WRKSRC} -name Makefile | ${XARGS} ${REINPLACE_CMD} \
>                 -e '/^MANDIR :=/s|share/||'
>         @${REINPLACE_CMD} -e '/^all:/s/$$/ liblz4.pc/' \
>                 ${WRKSRC}/lib/Makefile
>         @${REINPLACE_CMD} -e '/^all:/s|fullbench.*||' \
>                 ${WRKSRC}/programs/Makefile
>
> post-install:
>         ${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/lz4*
>         ${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/lib/liblz4.so.${SO_VER}
>
> .include <bsd.port.mk>
> ---
>
> Manually specifying the SO_VER seems also very weird.
>
> I am sorry if these questions seem clumsy - I am not terribly experienced  
> with porting stuff, but eager to learn.

You can still use them---just add an extra :R.

PLIST_SUB+=	SO_VER=${SO_VER:R} SO_VER_MAJ=${SO_VER:R:R}

# Adam


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