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

[Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>]

On Thu Mar 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM CDT, Randolph Sapp via 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 78138d1543..02d81e7069 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"

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