[kde-freebsd] Question about porting a little KDE app

[Daniel W. Steinbrook]

There's the problem!  The libraries are in fact in ${PREFIX}/lib/kde3,
but I had set USE_LDCONFIG to ${PREFIX}/lib.  That's why it was acting
funny.  Thanks for your help.

- Daniel W. Steinbrook


On 4/6/07, Michael Nottebrock <lofi at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Daniel W. Steinbrook wrote:
> > I just finished a simple port (my first) of one of my favorite little KDE
> > applications, the Keep backup tool
> > (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=32984), and I hope to submit
> > it to the ports collection soon.  It builds/installs/packages
> > itself/deinstalls nicely now, but I have one porting-noobish-type
> > question: what is the proper use of ldconfig in the Makefile?  Keep does
> > install some files into ${PREFIX}/lib, including a KDE service daemon, but
> > the port runs without the USE_LDCONFIG line.
> >
> > Is this a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"?
>
> If you're asking whether you should set USE_LDCONFIG anyway, then the
> answer is yes.
>
> I suspect that those files the application installs might actually belong
> in ${PREFIX}/lib/kde3 rather than ${PREFIX}/lib ... if that is the case
> though, it's an application bug that can be sorted out by the developers
> of the application later and shouldn't keep you from submitting the port.
>
> Cheers,
> --
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