[MacPorts] #29917: Fuse4X: add port

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Wed Jul 13 00:57:04 PDT 2011


#29917: Fuse4X: add port
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 Reporter:  anatol.pomozov@…          |       Owner:  dports@…                           
     Type:  submission                |      Status:  assigned                           
 Priority:  Normal                    |   Milestone:                                     
Component:  ports                     |     Version:                                     
 Keywords:                            |        Port:  fuse4x fuse4x-kext fuse4x-framework
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Comment(by dports@…):

 Replying to [comment:21 anatol.pomozov@…]:
 > > I noticed the library installs as libfuse4x.dylib rather than libfuse
 > The idea is to make fuse4x and macfuse coexist together on the same
 computer.

 I contemplated this one some more today and I'm undecided about whether
 this is a good idea. For one, the benefit is illusory: macfuse and fuse4x
 won't actually be able to coexist -- at least not in MacPorts, and
 probably not with a standalone-installed version either -- because both of
 them want to install `$prefix/include/fuse.h` in the same place.

 It doesn't bother me so much that ports will need to know to link with
 -lfuse4x instead of -lfuse, even though there are a couple that will need
 to be patched. But it occurs to me that that does mean migrating from
 macfuse to fuse4x would require rebuilding all installed filesystems just
 to link them against a new library. If installing the library under the
 same name meant that existing file systems would continue to work, that
 would certainly be desirable.

 Of course, all that is predicated on the library actually being ABI-
 compatible with MacFUSE's libfuse! I imagine it is, but I haven't actually
 checked.

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