Re: Some problems packaging libobjc2 version 1.6

[Richard Stonehouse]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:35:39PM +0000, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2012, at 01:18, Richard Stonehouse wrote:
>
> > However it has the danger that any absolute paths contained in any of the files 
> > will start with /tmp/Buildroot/usr rather than just /usr, which is going to 
> > cause trouble when the pakage is installed to /.
>
> No absolute paths are stored in any generated files in libobjc2, so this 
> concern is irrelevant.

Except the absolute symlinks to the shared libraries libobjc.so.4.6.0 
and libobjcxx.so.4.6.0. The attached patch converts them to relative 
symlinks.

There is also a problem that rpmbuild generates an unresolvable 
dependency. This appears to be connected with the fact that the 
libraries do not have sonames and rpmbuild depends on sonames for its 
automatic dependency generation. Also attached is a patch to give the 
library an soname, which cures this problem - I don't know whether it 
creates any others.

With these patches, and with PREFIX set to ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr, the 
rpmbuild works and produces an installable RPM package.

--
     Richard Stonehouse

libobjc2-1.6-fix_absolute_symlinks.patch
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libobjc2-1.6-set_soname.patch
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