Re: Failures of some gnome packages (linkage, -ldb4)

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:57:10 +0300
Aleksey Cheusov <vle%gmx.net@localhost> wrote:

> > On 26/04/2009, at 12:47 AM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> 
>  >> These failures happen because at build time there is no db4 library
>  >> (no
>  >> inclusion of bdb.buildlink.mk) but -ldb4 is mentioned in libeel-2.la
>  >> against which linkage is made.
> 
> > If the package directly links against libdb4, it should include its
> > buildlink.mk!  Have you tried including bdb.buildlink.mk to see if it
> > works then?
> 
> Of course adding bdb.buildlink.mk fixes the problem, but I'm not sure
> this is a correct fix because these packages don't need db4 directly.
> -ldb4 comes from...(long way)... python2.5.
> 
> Can those who maintain GNOME packages explain why libgnome-desktop-2.la
> contains -ldb4? The real problem is probably here.

Does libgnome-desktop link against libpython? If so, I'll argue the
gnome-desktop bl3.mk should include python stuff and pull in db4 that
way.