Index: ./share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/src/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5,v retrieving revision 1.550 diff -u -p -u -p -r1.550 bsd.port.mk.5 --- ./share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5 22 Nov 2021 11:17:39 -0000 1.550 +++ ./share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5 12 Dec 2021 13:07:44 -0000 @@ -3558,17 +3558,16 @@ usage. .It LIB_DEPENDS not needed for There doesn't seem to be any WANTLIB to match the given LIB_DEPENDS. Thus, the LIB_DEPENDS won't turn into a @depends line in the created package. -This is often because of confusion between LIB_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS: -RUN_DEPENDS is needed for dlopen'd libraries. +This is often because of confusion between LIB_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS. .Pp -Might be intentional sometimes, if some compile flavors create static binaries, -for instance. -Also, will happen for multi-packages, where one sets LIB_DEPENDS to have -a given build dependency (and corresponding WANTLIB for a given SUBPACKAGE). -.Pp -See -.Cm print-package-args Pq Cm lib-depends-args -for details. +Needed libraries should always be added to LIB_DEPENDS and WANTLIB. +In cases where the libraries are not dynamically linked in, +.Cm lib-depends-check +will raise a warning, because it can't detect the dependency. +For example for statically linked libraries, or libraries that are +loaded by +.Xr dlopen 3 . +In this case, add a comment to the Makefile about the intentional warning. .It "Warning: FULLPKGNAME-sub defined but not FULLPKGPATH-sub" .Ev FULLPKGNAME-sub has been explicitly defined by the port, instead of relying on the default,