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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:29:51AM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>:
> > On Friday 02 March 2007 16:50:02 Eric Sandall wrote:
> <snip>
> >> You'll want to increment PATCHLEVEL so the missing file is installed
> >> for everyone.
> >>
> >
> > libgdb.a is only needed by fpc, which hardly anyone uses, so I did not 
> > think
> > it was worth forcing everybody else to rebuild gdb, which is a slow 
> > process
> 
> I don't know what our official policy is, but I'd rather have  
> everything working on a box rather than have a user run into a problem.

So far the policy has been to update PATCHLEVEL, even for big spells.
But in this case, where it's really only a single spell needing it,
the force_depends function could be a good way out.
In fpc DEPENDS, a check like
depends gdb  &&
if [ ! -e /usr/lib/libgdb.a ]; then
force_depends gdb
fi
would make sure any fpc user will get a successfull cast, while other
users of gdb don't require the rebuild.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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