[Fink-users] Why so complicated?

[Peter D. <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE>]

Hello!

In an up-to-date version of imagemagick.info I have to use

	SplitOff: <<
	 Package: %N2-shlibs
	 Depends: <<
	 lcms2-shlibs (>= 2.0-1), libtiff-shlibs (>= 3.6.1-3), libjpeg8-shlibs, fontconfig2-shlibs (>= 2.4.1-1), expat1-shlibs (>= 2.0.0-1), bzip2-shlibs (>= 1.0.2-2), freetype219-shlibs (>= 2.3.5-1), x11-shlibs, libtool2-shlibs, fltk-x11-shlibs (>= 1.1.7-1003)
	 <<
	  Files: lib/lib*.*.dylib
	  Shlibs: <<
	   %p/lib/libMagick++.5.dylib   6.0.0 %n (>= 6.7.7-6)
	   %p/lib/libMagickWand.5.dylib 6.0.0 %n (>= 6.7.7-6)
	   %p/lib/libMagickCore.5.dylib 6.0.0 %n (>= 6.7.7-6)
	  <<
	  DocFiles: LICENSE README.txt ChangeLog NEWS.txt
	<<

Why can't I use %V as in (>= %V)? (Although I presume that the version number does not play a role...) And similarly here:

	SplitOff3: <<
	 Package: %N2-svg
	 Depends: <<
	  (%type_raw[-nox] = .) cairo-shlibs (>= 1.6-1),
	  (%type_raw[-nox] = .) glib2-shlibs (>= 2.14.0-1),
	  (%type_raw[-nox] = .) gtk+2-shlibs (>= 2.12.0-1),
	  (%type_raw[-nox] = .) libcroco3-shlibs (>= 0.6.0-11),
	  (%type_raw[-nox] = .) libgettext8-shlibs,
	  (%type_raw[-nox] = .) libgsf1.114-shlibs,
	  (%type_raw[-nox] = .) librsvg2-shlibs (>= 2.20.0-1),
	  (%type_raw[-nox] = .) pango1-xft2-ft219-shlibs (>= 1.18.1-1),
	  %N (= %v-%r)
	 <<
	 Files: lib/ImageMagick-6.7.7/modules-Q16/coders/svg.*
	 DocFiles: LICENSE README.txt ChangeLog NEWS.txt
	<<

One other thing is important: the SVG related module files in the "Files:" statement. They are not in a directory %n-%v or %n-%V (i.e. neither ImageMagick-6.7.7-6-1 nor ImageMagick-6.7.7-6) but in ImageMagick-6.7.7. How can I strip the "-<decimal>" from %v and save it in which free and unused variable?

	u=`echo "%v" | awk -F- '{print $1}'`

Is u free? (It comes before v in the alphabet and is presumingly less [developed, complicated], shorter, than %v.)

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  Pete

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