On 2026/03/03 22:06, Theo Buehler wrote:
> > here goes. on the one hand, renaming the library makes it significantly
> > more hassle to patch ports to use it, on the other it no longer needs to
> > go in a subdir so no more rpath, and "make port-lib-depends-check" works.
> 
> I can live with this, but I think it's not a great trade-off. I would have
> preferred the original eopenssl-like approach.
> 

for an example of what "significantly more hassle" looks like, here's
how patches for the two approaches look for nmap (which doesn't use
pkg-config for this).

$ acvs di patches|filterdiff -i '*_ac'|diffstat
 patch-configure_ac |   12 ------------
 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

$ acvs di patches|filterdiff -i '*_ac'|diffstat
 patch-configure_ac           |   46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 patch-ncat_configure_ac      |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 patch-nping_configure_ac     |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 patch-nsock_src_configure_ac |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

it might be possible to trim that down with more work, but it took
a while to get there. for the "same name different dir" approach it's
a simpler case of adding "-L${LOCALBASE}/lib/libpcap
-Wl,-rpath,${LOCALBASE}/lib/libpcap" to LDFLAGS, and the only thing
which tripped me up there was when I typoed as ${LOCALBASE}/libpcap
and it took me a few rounds to notice what was up.