[MacPorts] #19751: subversion +no_bdb still requires Berkeley DB

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#19751: subversion +no_bdb still requires Berkeley DB
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 Reporter:  com-macosforge@…         |       Owner:  dluke@…           
     Type:  defect                   |      Status:  new               
 Priority:  Normal                   |   Milestone:                    
Component:  ports                    |     Version:  1.7.1             
 Keywords:                           |        Port:  subversion        
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Comment(by blair@…):

 Replying to [comment:10 dluke@…]:
 > Replying to [comment:9 blair@…]:
 > > Serf doesn't need to explicitly list those dependencies since it lists
 a
 > > dependency upon apr-util.
 >
 > The MacPorts convention would be to include all libraries that a port
 depends directly on in the portfile even if one of its dependents also
 brings in that library.

 That's a suggestion I'm not in support of as a convention for MacPorts.

 > > I'm not going to add explicit dependencies to them and then have to
 track each
 > > change in apr-util.
 >
 > The other option would be to fix the serf build process so it doesn't
 link in those libraries unless it needs symbols from them.
 >
 > One small change to configure.in (line 174) would prevent SERF_LIBS from
 getting the extra libraries, but it will still link against them because
 we install the .la files for apr-util.

 If you have a patch to reduce the number of libraries, I can apply it to
 serf.

 > Perhaps that needs to change (I think other package mangers don't
 install the .la files along with the libraries)? I see a 2005 reference to
 ArchLinux switching over here http://www.archlinux.org/news/174/

 I have third party internal C++ binaries that use the Subversion API and
 need
 the .la files to properly link against them, so removing them is a not a
 good idea.

 I should also note that Ubuntu includes all the .la files in the dev
 packages.
 So we can split the .la files into another package, say subversion-dev.

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