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Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:15:44 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Tillman <tillman@seekingfire.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RUN_DEPENDS: Specifying options to the port if required?
Message-ID:  <20030204221544.GA5384@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030204153237.Q18752@seekingfire.com>
References:  <20030204153237.Q18752@seekingfire.com>

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On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:32:37PM -0600, Tillman wrote:
> Howdy,
>=20
> What's the best way to handle run dependencies for ports where options
> make a big difference? For example, if a new port needs the postgresql7
> client, built with WITHOUT_SERVER, what's the proper way to handle that?

There's no way to specify options to a dependency; the usual solution
is to make a slave port of the dependency that sets the option in its
makefile and depend on that.

Kris

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