Re: [oe-core][PATCH] bzip2: add libbz2.so.1.0 link for compat

[Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>]

On Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 11:52 AM CDT, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> It's better to backport the upstream patch, as nobody's going to
> remember why do_install snippet is there, or to remove it when there's
> a new release (if it doesn't cause installation conflicts).
>
> Alex

I would backport the upstream patch, if it wasn't dependant on a migration to
Cmake. I feel like that's a bit much.

Randolph

> On Sat, 16 Mar 2024 at 01:19, Randolph Sapp via lists.openembedded.org
> <rs=ti.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> >
> > From: Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>
> >
> > Add a link from libbz2.so.1.0 to libbz2.so.${PV} for compatibility with
> > other distributions.
> >
> > A handfull of distributions are still using the "Makefile-libbz2_so" to
> > generate libbz2 and bzip2-shared. This creates a library with a soname
> > of "libbz2.so.1.0". This library link is not provide by default in
> > autotools builds so add one here as Gentoo does now [1].
> >
> > This has been addressed upstream already, but there hasn't been a stable
> > release since then [2].
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/338321
> > [2] https://gitlab.com/bzip2/bzip2/-/merge_requests/42
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
> > index 4e3a06f240..4453171701 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
> > @@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ do_install_ptest () {
> >         sed -i -e "s|^Makefile:|_Makefile:|" ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/Makefile
> >  }
> >
> > +# add the following link for cross-distro compatibility
> > +do_install:append () {
> > +       ln -s libbz2.so.${PV} "${D}${libdir}/libbz2.so.1.0"
> > +}
> > +
> >  FILES:libbz2 = "${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBS}"
> >
> >  RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "make bash"
> > --
> > 2.44.0
> >
> >
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