Re: [ptxdist] regression linking against libcgi after fixing patches in a53b663

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:05:16AM +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> in commit a53b663 a typo in Makefile of LibCGI was fixed, actually in
> the patches fixing various things in LibCGI. This sets the soname of the
> library to libcgi.so.0 in the options passed to the linker. However this
> libcgi.so.0 is never installed but libcgi.so instead. This does work at
> build time when compiling and linking against libcgi but at runtime this
> fails because libcgi.so is installed in both install and targetinstall
> stage but there's no libcgi.so.0 present on the target.
> 
> I'm not familiar with autotools to fix this myself. Expected behaviour
> would be some libcgi.so.x.y.z is installed and libcgi.so.x and libcgi.so
> are symlinks of which only libcgi.so.x is installed to the target. If I
> rename libcgi.so on my target to libcgi.so.0.0.0 and create a symlink
> libcgi.so.0 my cgis work again.

I think I fixed this now, but I can't test it. Please try.

> by the way: the author of the libcgi library moved the code from
> sourceforge to github [1] and kindly responses to mails, bug reports und
> pull requests. I'll ask him how he plans to proceed with this long dead
> project and I'll share the result here. He already integrated the
> changes and fixes of the patches ptxdist carries in the master branch (I
> integrated those in one single commit in my personal fork and made a
> pull request in the expectation nobody would care, so sorry if you're
> not getting your credits.) I'll come up with some other patches fixing
> some things in the lib. I would share these with ptxdist as well and
> hope we could work toward some bugfix release 1.x of the lib integrating
> all the current changes to get rid of the patches. What's your opinion
> about this?

That sounds good. Especially the part about a release. I always like it
when I can remove patches from ptxdist. If someone is actually working on
this, I really suggest cleaning up the build system. If you don't know
enough about this, then look at libabc[1]. This is a good place to get
started with this.

Michael

[1] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/libabc.html

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