[csw-maintainers] Upgrading shared libraries

[dam at opencsw.org]

Hi Maciej,

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:52 PM,  <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Hi Maciej,
>>
>>> I revisited the modulation presentation from Oslo, it looks like I
>>> need to learn more on how to do create multi-version library packages.
>>> I'll try to find time this weekend to see if I get this to work. I'm
>>> thinking of creating a mgar/pkg/examples directory and putting there a
>>> few minimal examples, similar to minimalsmf.
>>
>> Sure. You can also do
>> Â cd mgar/pkg
>> Â grep EXTRA_MODULATORS */trunk/Makefile | grep GARVERSION
>> for examples, some easy ones, some advanced. Feel free to link on them
>> if you are writing up docs as real-world examples. And of course ask
>> any time if you have troubles with modulations :-)
>
> You can always count on me coming up with troubles! ;-)
>
> (I'm serious, I'm doing in such a way that I am going to get errors,
> I'm interested in the kinds of errors I'm going to get and what the
> fixes are going to be.)
>
> Here's a short version-modulated package example:
>
> http://dpaste.com/97707/
>
> It's telling me this:
>
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/maciej/src/opencsw/pkg/examples/modulations/trunk'
>         [merge-license] complete for modulatedpkg.
>         [merge] complete for modulatedpkg.
> pkgproto: ERROR: unable to stat
> </home/maciej/src/opencsw/pkg/examples/modulations/trunk/work/pkgroot>
> Failed to generate prototype at
> /home/maciej/src/opencsw/pkg/examples/modulations/trunk/gar/bin/cswproto
> line 129.
> gmake: *** [work/build-global/prototype] Error 1
>
> What is it missing? The destination directories surely get created:
>
> maciej at build10s
> [build10s]:~/src/opencsw/pkg/examples/modulations/trunk > tree
> work/install-isa-sparcv8-garversion-*
> work/install-isa-sparcv8-garversion-1.0
> `-- opt
>     `-- csw
>         `-- share
>             `-- example-1.0.txt
> work/install-isa-sparcv8-garversion-1.1
> `-- opt
>     `-- csw
>         `-- share
>             `-- example-1.1.txt
> work/install-isa-sparcv8-garversion-2.0
> `-- opt
>     `-- csw
>         `-- share
>             `-- example-2.0.txt
>
> 9 directories, 3 files
>
> Is it because of the missing merge targets?

Yes. If you are using EXTRA_MODULATORS you must have custom merge rules.
I may add version modulations as default some time.
Just see any of the examples.


Best regards

  -- Dago