Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 15:21:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: paul@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dependencies Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950826151909.4276C-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508260925.CAA05181@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Sat, 26 Aug 1995, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> * I don't like the way dependencies currently work.
> *
> * I want to build ghostview but it depends on ghostscript so when I try
> * and compile it it first goes off to get ghostscript and builds that,
> * but I've already got ghostscript installed!
> *
> * Can't the dependencies use pkg_* in some way to see if the package already
> * exists before trying to rebuild it again?
>
> Uhh, it should. The line:
>
> EXEC_DEPENDS= gs:${PORTSDIR}/print/ghostscript
>
> in the ghostview Makefile does exactly that, check if the program "gs"
> is in the search path (it uses "which"), and goes to build ghostscript
> only if it's not found.
>
> Maybe you don't have /usr/local/bin in your root's search path, then
> well sorry, it won't work, and I don't see any workaround for it.
Satoshi, the only time this is a pain for me is with libs. One easy
example is the grpahics subdir, which always seems to rebuild the libs if
the associated directory in ports/graphics doesn't contain the library in
question. I am right now upgrading to current ports; has this been fixed
there?
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