Re: textproc/tinyxml2 shared vs. static libraries

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 06:40:41PM +0100, Anthony Mallet wrote:
> OK. I was not sure if dependent packages in this case should be bumped
> too or not. (BTW, is there a tool that lists packages using some other
> one? I usually go with find/grep ...)

Yes, because before they had tinyxml2 statically linked in, but now
they depend on the tinyxml2 package to provide the shared library.

pkgtools/revbump has a '-n' flag to show the packages that will be
bumped but doesn't bump them.

> Right, sorry about that. I am currently using pkgsrc-2024Q4 and the
> diff was against this. I did checkout HEAD for testing the patch, but
> I later forgot that there had been an update in between.

No problem, that explains it.

Cheers,
 Thomas