[kde-freebsd] editors/koffice-kde3 is missing liblcms.la

[Max Brazhnikov]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:55:21 +0400, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:47:12 -0500
>
> Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> mentioned:
> > > On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:00:19 +0400
> > > >
> > > > Max Brazhnikov <makc at freebsd.org> mentioned:
> > > > > koffice (and most if not all of kde3 ports) uses both shared and
> > > > > static libraries. And it seems kde3 is not supposed to build
> > > > > without static libs, so I think lcms should be reverted.
> > > >
> > > > Then it is clearly a bug in kde build system and should be fixed
> > > > there and submitted upstream. Furthermore, it is a security
> > > > maintaince problem.
> > >
> > > KDE doesn't need static library, and don't use static library when a
> > > dynamic library is available. And .la isn't a static library, but a
> > > libtool archive which is needed by libtool to properly link. In
> > > KDE4/KOffice2, libtool isn't used and therfore the problem has been
> > > "fixed", but for KDE3/KOffice 1.x, the only solution is to use the
> > > liblcms.la file (which in itself doesn't cause a security maitenance).
> > >
> > > --
> > > Cyrille Berger
> >
> > I can confirm that reverting the change that disables the install of
> > liblcms.a and liblcms.la and rebuilding the graphics/lcms port allows
> > editors/koffice-kde3 to install.
> >
> > ldd on PREFIX/lib/kde3/libkritagmagick{export,import}.so shows that
> > editors/koffice-kde3 is using the shared liblcms.so.1 library.
> >
> > I have submitted PR 133856.  The patch uses --enable-static=no to
> > disable the install of the static library, and removes the change from
> > the ports Makefile that disabled the install of the static library and
> > liblcms.la file.
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=133856
>
> ..la files is not used on FreeBSD to link applications. The problem
> you're expireincing is probably because of stale .la files in
> /usr/local/lib that contain references to lcms.la. Either reinstall
> all ports that depend on lcms first (I suppose, it's ImageMagick for
koffice depends on GraphicsMagick, which has to be rebuilt after lcms update. 

> you), or grep /usr/local/lib for lcms.la and strip references by hand.