From: Marc Espie <marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: pkg_create: @lib without LIBname_VERSION
To: George Koehler <kernigh@gmail.com>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:09:20 +0100

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 02:47:05PM -0500, George Koehler wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 17:48:22 +0100
> Marc Espie <marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > If you wonder whether it should be @so's with no version at all or @lib 
> > libraries, that's a secondary concern, imo. Make sure everything
> > that says "@lib" has a corresponding SHARED_LIBS, then you can
> > decide what you want to do.
> 
> This diff checks that each @lib has a LIBname_VERSION, but doesn't
> look for '${LIBname_VERSION}'.  This works with all ports but
> devel/qcad when I tried "make print-plist-all >/dev/null".  It works
> with devel/libtalloc where make(1) expands a version variable before
> pkg_create(1) can see it,
> 
> devel/libtalloc/Makefile:
> PYTALLOC_UTIL_LIBSUFFIX=	cpython-${MODPY_MAJORMINOR}.so.${LIBpytalloc-util.cpython-${MODPY_MAJORMINOR}_VERSION}
> devel/libtalloc/pkg/PLIST-python:
> @lib lib/libpytalloc-util.${PYTALLOC_UTIL_LIBSUFFIX}


I don't see why libtalloc has to be special

There's nothing that prevents SHARED_LIBS from using more variables
and you from defining stuff that makes sure pkg_create will see the
right thing.