[Midnightbsd-cvs] [MidnightBSD/mports] 76c3cf: print/ghostscript10: bump PORTREVISION to rebuild ...

[Lucas Holt]

  Branch: refs/heads/master
  Home:   https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mports
  Commit: 76c3cfaf45e1e32d364ad0cad7567230294ee6f0
      https://github.com/MidnightBSD/mports/commit/76c3cfaf45e1e32d364ad0cad7567230294ee6f0
  Author: Lucas Holt <luke at foolishgames.com>
  Date:   2026-09-06 (Sun, 06 Sep 2026)

  Changed paths:
    M print/ghostscript10/Makefile

  Log Message:
  -----------
  print/ghostscript10: bump PORTREVISION to rebuild against libidn 1.43 (#845)

`dns/libidn` 1.43 ships `libidn.so.12` with **no ELF symbol versioning
at all**. A ghostscript built against an earlier libidn therefore
carries a requirement nothing can satisfy, and every invocation dies
before `main()`:

```
$ gs --version
ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libidn.so.12: version LIBIDN_1.0 required by
             /usr/local/lib/libgs.so.10 not defined
```

Ghostscript is effectively broken for anyone who installed it before the
libidn update. Nothing in the port needs to change — it just needs
rebuilding — so this is a bare `PORTREVISION` bump.

### How it surfaced

`graphics/graphviz` failed to build: it renders its PDF manuals with
`ps2pdf`, which is ghostscript. After rebuilding ghostscript, `gs
--version` returns `10.03.1` and graphviz builds cleanly.

### Testing

Rebuilt and reinstalled on amd64 (MidnightBSD 4.1); `gs --version`
works, `graphics/graphviz` then built, staged and packaged successfully.

### Note

This is one instance of a general pattern: a library dropping symbol
versioning silently breaks every already-installed consumer.
`textproc/libxml2` 2.15.4 appears to have done the same thing —
`graphics/evince` currently fails with `libxml2.so.2: version
LIBXML2_2.4.30 required by libevdocument3.so.4 not defined`. That is
being handled separately.

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## Summary by Sourcery

Bug Fixes:
- Rebuild ghostscript10 against the unversioned libidn 1.43 ABI so
existing installations no longer fail at startup due to an unsatisfied
LIBIDN_1.0 requirement.

Signed-off-by: Lucas Holt <luke at foolishgames.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply at anthropic.com>



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