liblldb.so present in lldb-devel and missing from shlibs

[asiekierka]

Affects lldb/lldb-devel 9.0.0_4.

It appears liblldb.so is missing from common/shlibs, while being necessary for packaging of intellij-idea-community-edition 2019.3+. Oddly, it is present in the "lldb-devel" package, while liblldb.so.9 and liblldb.so.9.0.0 are present in "lldb" - made more curious by the fact the Python library symlink in "lldb" points to and expects liblldb.so. I'm not the maintainer, but I think that specific symlink should be in the "lldb" package (as opposed to "lldb-devel") and mentioned in the common/shlibs list.

[pullmoll]

Not oddly, but intentionally *.so symbolic links are (almost always) in the *-devel packages.
When building a project which depends on e.g. liblldb.so the symbolic link is resolved and the actual linking is against the symbolic link's target. By looking at common/shlibs and finding e.g. liblldb.so.9 lldb-9.0.0_1 then xbps-src knows what library to depend on: lldb-9.0.0_1 or newer.

When building intellij-idea-community-edition-2019.3+ a makedepends which contains lldb-devel should work this way and the resulting binary should depend on /usr/lib/liblldb.so.9 not on /usr/lib/liblldb.so.

[asiekierka]

The problem is, the IDEA package (as well as PyCharm) is built based on JetBrains' binary release, not the source code repository. As most of it is Java code, there is little reason to build from source - except for those specific, small binaries used by specific parts of functionality.

It would be possible to adapt the IDEA package to build from source (Arch Linux does this), but it requires some patchwork.

[ericonr]

The package has been updated multiple times already, so I believe thsi has been fully solved.