Saturday, September 24, 2022

Re: NEW: devel/libgrapheme

On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 09:41:56AM +0200, Omar Polo wrote:
> On 2022/09/23 22:49:52 +0200, Jan Klemkow <j.klemkow@wemelug.de> wrote:
> > this new port contains the suckless unicode library libgrapheme.
> >
> > pkg/DESCR:
> > libgrapheme is an extremely simple C99 library providing
> > utilities for properly handling Unicode strings made up of
> > user-perceived characters ('grapheme clusters') according to the
> > Unicode standard. While providing convenience functions to
> > operate on UTF-8-encoded strings, you can also use libgrapheme
> > for any other encoding as well.
>
> Oh, that's a nice library!
>
> Some comments about the port:
>
> - it could also go in the textproc category

done

> - it's missing a license comment marker before PERMIT_PACKAGE. it
> seems to be ISC, nice!

done

> - WANTLIB is not needed.

done

> - you can avoid patch-config_mk by setting
>
> FAKE_FLAGS= MANPREFIX=${PREFIX}/man

done

> - i think we can simplify patch-Makefile too. what about leaving
> libgrapheme.so as-is and just add the ${SO_VERSION} at
> install-time? We could even do this as a rename in post-install
> instead of patching. or does this prevent the library to get the
> correct soname?

done

> - i don't really like that it runs ldconfig as part of make install.
> don't know if it's better, but i've seen other project doing stuff
> like that only when ${DESTDIR} is not defined. Maybe we can try to
> get something like this upstream?
>
> -ldconfig || true
> +test -n "${DESTDIR}" && ldconfig || true

I'll forward your suggestion to the developer.

An updated tarball of this port is attached.

OK to import?

Thanks,
Jan

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