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Port details
publib Library of C functions for various purposes
0.40_1 devel Deleted on this many watch lists=2 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 0.40_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Deprecated DEPRECATED: Upstream is gone and last release around 2012
Expired This port expired on: 2025-07-31
There is no maintainer for this port.
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Port Added: 2004-02-04 05:57:50
Last Update: 2025-08-02 09:25:44
Commit Hash: f32f6e8
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License: BSD2CLAUSE
Description:
The library contains functions for memory allocation, bit arrays, configuration files, comparing standard C types for qsort and bsearch, error messages, expression parsing and evaluation, filenames, hash tables, integer sets, log files, the Linux Software Map, NNTP, priority queues, normal queues, editor buffers, stacks, and strings.
cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/publib-0.40_1/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/publib-0.40_1/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/publib-0.40_1/BSD2CLAUSE
  4. include/publib.h
  5. include/publib/alloc.h
  6. include/publib/base64.h
  7. include/publib/bitarr.h
  8. include/publib/cmp.h
  9. include/publib/errormsg.h
  10. include/publib/files.h
  11. include/publib/fname.h
  12. include/publib/hash.h
  13. include/publib/iset.h
  14. include/publib/lockfile.h
  15. include/publib/log.h
  16. include/publib/main.h
  17. include/publib/nntp.h
  18. include/publib/priq.h
  19. include/publib/queue.h
  20. include/publib/sbuf.h
  21. include/publib/stack.h
  22. include/publib/strutil.h
  23. include/publib/tbuf.h
  24. lib/libpub.a
  25. share/man/man3/__set_liberror.3.gz
  26. share/man/man3/ba_and_ba.3.gz
  27. share/man/man3/ba_clear.3.gz
  28. share/man/man3/ba_clear_all.3.gz
  29. share/man/man3/ba_copy.3.gz
  30. share/man/man3/ba_create.3.gz
  31. share/man/man3/ba_destroy.3.gz
  32. share/man/man3/ba_not.3.gz
  33. share/man/man3/ba_or_ba.3.gz
  34. share/man/man3/ba_or_not_ba.3.gz
  35. share/man/man3/ba_query.3.gz
  36. share/man/man3/ba_resize.3.gz
  37. share/man/man3/ba_set.3.gz
  38. share/man/man3/ba_xor_ba.3.gz
  39. share/man/man3/bitarr.3.gz
  40. share/man/man3/cmp.3.gz
  41. share/man/man3/cmp_char.3.gz
  42. share/man/man3/cmp_chararr.3.gz
  43. share/man/man3/cmp_charptr.3.gz
  44. share/man/man3/cmp_double.3.gz
  45. share/man/man3/cmp_float.3.gz
  46. share/man/man3/cmp_int.3.gz
  47. share/man/man3/cmp_long.3.gz
  48. share/man/man3/cmp_long_double.3.gz
  49. share/man/man3/cmp_schar.3.gz
  50. share/man/man3/cmp_set_offset.3.gz
  51. share/man/man3/cmp_short.3.gz
  52. share/man/man3/cmp_struct.3.gz
  53. share/man/man3/cmp_uchar.3.gz
  54. share/man/man3/cmp_uint.3.gz
  55. share/man/man3/cmp_ulong.3.gz
  56. share/man/man3/cmp_ushort.3.gz
  57. share/man/man3/dynarr.3.gz
  58. share/man/man3/dynarr_free.3.gz
  59. share/man/man3/dynarr_init.3.gz
  60. share/man/man3/dynarr_resize.3.gz
  61. share/man/man3/errormsg.3.gz
  62. share/man/man3/fassert.3.gz
  63. share/man/man3/files.3.gz
  64. share/man/man3/fname.3.gz
  65. share/man/man3/fnbase.3.gz
  66. share/man/man3/fndelbeg.3.gz
  67. share/man/man3/fndelend.3.gz
  68. share/man/man3/fndelsuf.3.gz
  69. share/man/man3/fndir.3.gz
  70. share/man/man3/fnhome.3.gz
  71. share/man/man3/fnjoin.3.gz
  72. share/man/man3/fnlastsuf.3.gz
  73. share/man/man3/fnpathfind.3.gz
  74. share/man/man3/fnqualify.3.gz
  75. share/man/man3/fnsetsuf.3.gz
  76. share/man/man3/get_progname.3.gz
  77. share/man/man3/getaline.3.gz
  78. share/man/man3/hash.3.gz
  79. share/man/man3/hash_create.3.gz
  80. share/man/man3/hash_destroy.3.gz
  81. share/man/man3/hash_install.3.gz
  82. share/man/man3/hash_iter.3.gz
  83. share/man/man3/hash_lookup.3.gz
  84. share/man/man3/hash_uninstall.3.gz
  85. share/man/man3/iset.3.gz
  86. share/man/man3/iset_add.3.gz
  87. share/man/man3/iset_add_range.3.gz
  88. share/man/man3/iset_clear.3.gz
  89. share/man/man3/iset_contains.3.gz
  90. share/man/man3/iset_copy.3.gz
  91. share/man/man3/iset_create.3.gz
  92. share/man/man3/iset_destroy.3.gz
  93. share/man/man3/iset_diff.3.gz
  94. share/man/man3/iset_is_empty.3.gz
  95. share/man/man3/iset_isect.3.gz
  96. share/man/man3/iset_nth_range.3.gz
  97. share/man/man3/iset_range.3.gz
  98. share/man/man3/iset_remove.3.gz
  99. share/man/man3/iset_remove_range.3.gz
  100. share/man/man3/iset_union.3.gz
  101. share/man/man3/log.3.gz
  102. share/man/man3/memarrfill.3.gz
  103. share/man/man3/memdel.3.gz
  104. share/man/man3/memdup.3.gz
  105. share/man/man3/memfill.3.gz
  106. share/man/man3/memins.3.gz
  107. share/man/man3/memisort.3.gz
  108. share/man/man3/memmem.3.gz
  109. share/man/man3/memoverlap.3.gz
  110. share/man/man3/memrchr.3.gz
  111. share/man/man3/memrev.3.gz
  112. share/man/man3/memrmem.3.gz
  113. share/man/man3/memshuffle.3.gz
  114. share/man/man3/memswap.3.gz
  115. share/man/man3/publib.3.gz
  116. share/man/man3/set_progname.3.gz
  117. share/man/man3/stack.3.gz
  118. share/man/man3/stack_copy.3.gz
  119. share/man/man3/stack_create.3.gz
  120. share/man/man3/stack_destroy.3.gz
  121. share/man/man3/stack_is_empty.3.gz
  122. share/man/man3/stack_pop.3.gz
  123. share/man/man3/stack_push.3.gz
  124. share/man/man3/stracat.3.gz
  125. share/man/man3/stranaxfrm.3.gz
  126. share/man/man3/strchange.3.gz
  127. share/man/man3/strcins.3.gz
  128. share/man/man3/strcstr.3.gz
  129. share/man/man3/strdel.3.gz
  130. share/man/man3/strdiff.3.gz
  131. share/man/man3/strend.3.gz
  132. share/man/man3/strendzap.3.gz
  133. share/man/man3/strgsub.3.gz
  134. share/man/man3/strhash.3.gz
  135. share/man/man3/strinit.3.gz
  136. share/man/man3/strins.3.gz
  137. share/man/man3/strltrim.3.gz
  138. share/man/man3/strmaxcpy.3.gz
  139. share/man/man3/strmove.3.gz
  140. share/man/man3/strmtrim.3.gz
  141. share/man/man3/strndup.3.gz
  142. share/man/man3/strnins.3.gz
  143. share/man/man3/stroverlap.3.gz
  144. share/man/man3/strrev.3.gz
  145. share/man/man3/strright.3.gz
  146. share/man/man3/strrot13.3.gz
  147. share/man/man3/strrstr.3.gz
  148. share/man/man3/strrtrim.3.gz
  149. share/man/man3/strset.3.gz
  150. share/man/man3/strshuffle.3.gz
  151. share/man/man3/strsplit.3.gz
  152. share/man/man3/strsub.3.gz
  153. share/man/man3/strtabify.3.gz
  154. share/man/man3/strtrexpand.3.gz
  155. share/man/man3/strtrim.3.gz
  156. share/man/man3/struncstr.3.gz
  157. share/man/man3/struntabify.3.gz
  158. share/man/man3/strvars.3.gz
  159. share/man/man3/strzap.3.gz
  160. share/man/man3/tbuf.3.gz
  161. share/man/man3/tbuf_cat.3.gz
  162. share/man/man3/tbuf_chars.3.gz
  163. share/man/man3/tbuf_copy.3.gz
  164. share/man/man3/tbuf_create.3.gz
  165. share/man/man3/tbuf_destroy.3.gz
  166. share/man/man3/tbuf_length.3.gz
  167. share/man/man3/xfclose.3.gz
  168. share/man/man3/xfopen.3.gz
  169. share/man/man3/xfree.3.gz
  170. share/man/man3/xfseek.3.gz
  171. share/man/man3/xgetaline.3.gz
  172. share/man/man3/xmalloc.3.gz
  173. share/man/man3/xmemdup.3.gz
  174. share/man/man3/xrealloc.3.gz
  175. share/man/man3/xstrdup.3.gz
  176. @owner
  177. @group
  178. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • publib>0:devel/publib
No installation instructions:
This port has been deleted.
PKGNAME: publib
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
SHA256 (publib_0.40.orig.tar.gz) = 35ec7d0682265a494bb585beba34900d18a5fb1a93c687bee4e7e28a8e0498b9 SIZE (publib_0.40.orig.tar.gz) = 144932

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
publib
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest--0.40--n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly--0.400.40_1-n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest--0.40--0.40-0.40
FreeBSD:14:quarterly---0.40_1-0.400.400.40
FreeBSD:15:latest--n/a-n/an/a0.400.40_1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest--n/a-n/an/a--
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  1. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/publib/
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Port Moves
  • port deleted on 2025-08-02
    REASON: Has expired: Upstream is gone and last release around 2012

Number of commits found: 21

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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0.40_1
02 Aug 2025 09:25:44
commit hash: f32f6e802a0c63582cab526b3561e411aacf5bbecommit hash: f32f6e802a0c63582cab526b3561e411aacf5bbecommit hash: f32f6e802a0c63582cab526b3561e411aacf5bbecommit hash: f32f6e802a0c63582cab526b3561e411aacf5bbe files touched by this commit
Rene Ladan (rene) search for other commits by this committer
devel/publib: Remove expired port

2025-07-31 devel/publib: Upstream is gone and last release around 2012
0.40_1
08 Jun 2025 13:46:52
commit hash: 626f334c15c72713daf8fac48aa0f8476b604c2ecommit hash: 626f334c15c72713daf8fac48aa0f8476b604c2ecommit hash: 626f334c15c72713daf8fac48aa0f8476b604c2ecommit hash: 626f334c15c72713daf8fac48aa0f8476b604c2e files touched by this commit
Daniel Engberg (diizzy) search for other commits by this committer
devel/publib: Deprecate and set expiration date to 2025-07-31

Upstream is long gone there's a long todo list included in the release
archive listing various functionality and bug fixes
0.40_1
23 Feb 2024 14:49:54
commit hash: 605938581c01f10cb2ae0ad573ce937d3350368ecommit hash: 605938581c01f10cb2ae0ad573ce937d3350368ecommit hash: 605938581c01f10cb2ae0ad573ce937d3350368ecommit hash: 605938581c01f10cb2ae0ad573ce937d3350368e files touched by this commit
Muhammad Moinur Rahman (bofh) search for other commits by this committer
devel/publib: Moved man to share/man

Approved by:    portmgr (blanket)
0.40
20 Jul 2022 14:21:35
commit hash: aa6eefd5e663357e8223399bc38c7987f5e35746commit hash: aa6eefd5e663357e8223399bc38c7987f5e35746commit hash: aa6eefd5e663357e8223399bc38c7987f5e35746commit hash: aa6eefd5e663357e8223399bc38c7987f5e35746 files touched by this commit
Tobias C. Berner (tcberner) search for other commits by this committer
devel: remove 'Created by' lines

A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:

  *  "Waitman Gobble" <uzimac@da3m0n8t3r.com>
  *  <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Aaron Dalton <aaron@daltons.ca>
  *  Aaron H. K. Diep <ahkdiep@gmail.com>
  *  Aaron Hurt <ahurt@anbcs.com>
  *  Abel Chow <abel_chow@yahoo.com>
  *  Adam McLaurin
  *  Adam Saponara <as@php.net>
  *  Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
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0.40
06 Apr 2021 14:31:07
commit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344eb files touched by this commit
Mathieu Arnold (mat) search for other commits by this committer
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.
0.40
22 Feb 2017 15:02:18
Revision:434587Original commit files touched by this commit
bapt search for other commits by this committer
Drop useless dependency on gmake (bmake build those fine)
0.40
19 May 2016 10:21:25
Revision:415498Original commit files touched by this commit
amdmi3 search for other commits by this committer
- Fix trailing whitespace in pkg-descrs, categories [a-f]*

Approved by:	portmgr blanket
0.40
30 May 2015 11:42:59
Revision:387927Original commit files touched by this commit
pawel search for other commits by this committer
- Update to version 0.40
- Configuration switched from home grown framework to pure autotools configure
- Fix recursive COMMENT
- According to README all files are under BSD 2 clause license,
  license is embedded at end of README file so no LICENSE_FILE
0.39
27 Oct 2014 11:03:01
Revision:371551Original commit files touched by this commit
bapt search for other commits by this committer
Cleanup plist
0.39
05 Aug 2014 09:58:21
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- Stagify
- Add LICENSE (GPLv2)
0.39
29 Jul 2014 17:12:50
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Rename all patches that contain '::' as a path separator, and use
'__' instead.
0.39
04 Jul 2014 12:06:07
Revision:360604Original commit files touched by this commit
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Resetting maintainership on ports that have not been staged and without any
pending PR (related to stage)

With hat:	portmgr
0.39
29 May 2014 15:09:43
Revision:355707Original commit files touched by this commit
miwi search for other commits by this committer
- Convert gmake, bzip2 to USES

Approved by:	portmgr
0.39
20 Sep 2013 17:13:47
Revision:327724Original commit files touched by this commit
bapt search for other commits by this committer
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
devel part 3)
0.39
03 Jul 2011 14:59:23
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-remove MD5
0.39
05 Jun 2006 11:42:25
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Also update distinfo and plist, forgotten in previous commit:

  Update to 0.39

  PR:             ports/97412
  Submitted by:   Martin Wilke <freebsd@unixfreunde.de> (now miwi@)
  Approved by:    maintainer timeout, lawrance (mentor, implicit)

Approved by:    lawrance (mentor, implicit)
0.39
05 Jun 2006 11:28:51
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Update to 0.39

PR:             ports/97412
Submitted by:   Martin Wilke <freebsd@unixfreunde.de> (now miwi@)
Approved by:    maintainer timeout, lawrance (mentor, implicit)
0.38
22 Jan 2006 08:30:12
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edwin search for other commits by this committer
SHA256ify

Approved by:    krion@
0.38
01 Mar 2005 06:29:57
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sem search for other commits by this committer
- Update to 0.38

PR:             ports/76090
Submitted by:   Sergey Prikhodko <sergey@network-asp.biz>
Approved by:    maintainer
0.32_1
31 Mar 2004 03:12:58
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SIZEify (maintainer timeout)
0.32_1
04 Feb 2004 05:21:48
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marcus search for other commits by this committer
Bump PORTREVISION on all ports that depend on gettext to aid with upgrading.

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