Re: Validation failure for libpng15-32bit

"Daniel Macks" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.core
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:27:57 +0100, Sjors Gielen <[email protected]> wrote:
Op 05-02-12 00:42, Alexander Hansen schreef:
> >>> How many of these packages do we think there are going to be?  
> This is accomodating certain legacy things that can't be brought 
> forward to 64bit, rather than providing a platform for cutting edge 
> versions of packages getting ready for the future. 
> >>
> >>> If there won't be many, the big change might not be worth the effort. 
> > > Yeah, good point. 
>
> I can see some more Wine dependencies going 32-bit for more support, and
> there might be some applications supporting only 32-bit (for example,
> because they are partly assembly-based). Though every package is
> different in this regard, so maybe the best middle-ground solution would
> be to add some instructions regarding this to the Fink manual -- it will
> make it easier for maintainers to adher to a standard we're defining here. 
>
> By the way, about that standard: at the moment freetype219-32bit
> installs in /sw/lib/freetype219-32bit because the original freetype219
> installs in /sw/lib/freetype219. Maybe I should move this to
> /sw/lib32/freetype219 too. What do you think?

I think you shouldn't rely on existing packages that don't seem normal 
by fink standards and that have a ton of shims as an example of 
best-practice or even good/clever-idea inspiration:) Freetype219 *was* 
buried because we *had* had to contend with multiple libfreetype that 
all had the same libname, so we had to bury it in a package-specific 
way. It's pretty obvious from all of fink that /sw/lib/%n is in no way 
standard or blessed for normal packaging situations (nor does it align 
with the documented "wrong arch" layout for -64bit on i386). So *if* 
you're going to bury in a *pakcage*-specific subdir, you'd put *that* 
in /sw/lib32/freetype219 or whatever the standard archlibdir is. 

dan

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Daniel Macks
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