On 2017/12/26 11:57, Remi Locherer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 02:40:30AM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 24 2017, Remi Locherer <remi.loche...@relo.ch> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > liblognorm is a library to normalize log messages. It requires libfastjson > > > I sent in the previous mail. It can be used together with rsyslog. > > > > > > The patch is needed to run the test suite. 5 out of the 110 tests fail. > > > I informed the author about the failed tests. > > > > > > I tested on amd64. > > > > > > Reports from other platforms and OKs are welcome. > > > > No need to keep the TEST_DEPENDS line. Adding libestr to LIB_DEPENDS is > > sufficient. > > ok, good to know! > > > Regarding the patch: there's an easy way to avoid it. > > Regarding the plist, > > > > @comment $OpenBSD$ > > @bin bin/lognormalizer > > include/annot.h > > include/enc.h > > include/liblognorm.h > > include/lognorm-features.h > > include/lognorm.h > > include/parser.h > > include/pdag.h > > include/samp.h > > > > I don't think that all those include files (with rather broad names) > > should be installed. Upstream documentation seems to mention > > liblognorm.h as entry point. It looks like this is the result of > > a misuse of autotools recipes. Here's an updated tarball that stops > > installing all those headers, with the hope that the patch can be fed > > upstream (make distcheck passes). > > Upstream provides all these header files in the "-devel" rpm. The > "regular" rpm that provides the lib does not contain a header file at all. > But that is how it works in the RHEL eco-system.
-devel rpms are used when you *build* things against a library, whereas just the "regular" rpm is needed to satisfy run dependencies. It's a bit like the split between headers in comp*.tgz and libraries in base*.tgz in OpenBSD.
