Re: pkg/60184 (Fix chibi-scheme installation on macos)

["Taylor R Campbell via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/60184; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: "Diogo" <db7%sdf.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
	macos-pkg-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
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Subject: Re: pkg/60184 (Fix chibi-scheme installation on macos)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:31:46 +0000

 > Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:13:26 +0200
 > From: "Diogo" <db7%sdf.org@localhost>
 >=20
 > It turns out that the regex inside shlib-dylib.awk correctly
 > converts `lib<name>.so` -> `lib<name>.dylib`, but several modules in
 > chibi-scheme do not have the "lib" prefix, ie, they are just
 > `<name>.so`.
 
 Aha!  So that explains it, thanks.
 
 > An extremely easy fix would be to drop the "lib" prefix of the regex. In =
 my
 > local pkgsrc that worked perfectly. However, I am afraid that this soluti=
 on
 > could affect other packages that have `<name>.so` files even on macOS.
 
 Yes, that's a high-risk change that needs a bulk build and manual
 attention to determine whether it's worthwhile.
 
 Let's just use ${SHLIB_EXT} for the non-lib .so entries here.  But
 libchibi-scheme.so can still be written as such and it should DTRT.