[macports-base] rev-upgrade complains for weakly linked dependencies

[chrischavez at gmx.us]

On 10/16/23 at 1:14 PM, Jason Liu wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm getting complaints from rev-upgrade for a library binary that is weakly
> linked to a system framework which does exist on newer versions of macOS,
> but doesn't exist on older macOSes. rev-upgrade thinks that it's a broken
> file, and offers to rebuild the port; but of course rebuilding the port
> won't do any good, because the system framework doesn't exist. In addition,
> it's a bit difficult to simply remove the weak linking, because this piece
> of the library is distributed as a pre-compiled binary blob by the upstream
> devs, so it's not like I could modify some source code or CMakeLists file.
> Is this something that could be fixed in macports-base, so that rev-upgrade
> doesn't complain if a weakly linked dependency doesn't exist? (I could file
> a Trac ticket if anyone thinks it's something worth pursuing.)


I believe the ticket for this issue is
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52700