On Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:51:51 +0100,
Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I didn't expect it to be that much more work, Now seeing that, the initial
> version seems to be the better tradeoff.
>

Same, I thouth it will be picked by pkgconfig.

So, I withdraw my suggestion to rename it.

> Sebastian
> 
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 1:03 AM Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
> >
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wbr, Kirill