On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 09:48:31PM +0200, Robert Palm wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to know why, the following libs are named > > libSDL2_image.so.1.1 > libSDL2_ttf.so.0.1 > > and not > > libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0 > libSDL2_ttf-2.0.so.0 > > Ports: > devel/sdl2-image > devel/sdl2_ttf > > Is it because of CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX ? How does it work? > > Thank you. >
As to the why in the sense of the reason for the decision - this decision was made before my time. My understanding is that upstream decision to append '-2.0' didn't serve a useful purpose (SDL2 in the library name really tells you everything and at this point it looks like the next version will be SDL3). Also note the comment in CMakeLists.txt: # For historical reasons, the library name redundantly includes the major # version twice: libSDL2-2.0.so.0. As to the technical why - the port uses configure/Makefile and the patch for Makefile.in removes the use of LT_RELEASE which is responsible for the '-2.0' in other platforms. This is for devel/sdl2, probably similar for the sdl2-* ports. At this point this is moot as upstream has already acknowledged that this library naming will be stopped with SDL3.
