See my perl5-update-mail for handling such arbitrary auxiliary programs
being installed (sent out 5 minutes ago). With the changes in there, users
can just have installed any of these pkgs (yes, perl5 recognizes gdbm as
well) without taking special means in PLIST. 


 - Hubert

On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Thorsten Frueauf wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> [moved this to tech-pkg as it is no longer an hp300 issues]
> 
> > Seems as this is yet another thing found by the xemacs configure which
> > is then be used. Now there are two possibilities:
> > 
> > 1) switch faces support off by default in the xemacs20 package or
> > 2) create a DEPENDS to the faces package
> 
> While I just checked in a USE_XFACE flag to decide if faces should be
> used or not I did a `ldd xemacs` and opened a can of worms:
> 
> /usr/pkg/bin/xemacs:
>         -lXaw.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6.1 (0x812c000)
>         -lpng.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpng.so.1.0 (0x815c000)
>         -ljpeg.62 => /usr/pkg/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0 (0x8172000)
>         -lcompface.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libcompface.so.1.0 (0x818c000)
>         -lXpm.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.11 (0x8192000)
>         -lXmu.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0 (0x819e000)
>         -lXt.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 (0x81ae000)
>         -lXext.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.3 (0x81ea000)
>         -lX11.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1 (0x81f4000)
>         -lSM.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0 (0x8278000)
>         -lICE.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.3 (0x8280000)
>         -lgdbm.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgdbm.so.1.73 (0x8292000)
>         -lncurses.3 => /usr/pkg/lib/libncurses.so.3.4 (0x8298000)
>         -lkvm.5 => /usr/lib/libkvm.so.5.0 (0x82d0000)
>         -lm.0 => /usr/lib/libm.so.0.1 (0x82d8000)
>         -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12.20 (0x82f0000)
> 
> This means xemacs needs such a switch also for gdbm and ncurses.
> 
> Before I add USE_GDBM and USE_NCURSES too, are there any suggestions
> on how to solve this issue in a more clean way? E.g. currently a
> binary package might uses whatever its configure script finds on
> the machine the bin package builder might have installed.
> 
> Greets
> 

-- 
Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>