Binary packages not rebuilding against updated libraries

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Apr 24 16:36:56 UTC 2018


On 2018-4-25 02:31 , Ken Cunningham wrote:
> 
> On 2018-04-24, at 9:05 AM, Artur Szostak wrote:
>>
>> So then there is a bug from what I understand, or cfitsio in MacPorts is being built incorrectly. Compare file names for the newer Cfitsio:
>>  /opt/local/lib/libcfitsio.6.3.44.dylib
>>  /opt/local/lib/libcfitsio.6.dylib -> libcfitsio.6.3.44.dylib (symlink)
>> and the older Cfitsio:
>>  /opt/local/lib/libcfitsio.5.3.41.dylib
>>  /opt/local/lib/libcfitsio.5.dylib -> libcfitsio.5.3.41.dylib (symlink)
> 
> Portfile authors need to manually "revbump" the library's dependent ports when supporting libraries change significantly.

Yes, but...

> It's not automatically figured out by MacPorts.

It should be figured out by rev-upgrade if the library versioning is
done correctly.

- Josh


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