Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:53:37 -0800 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: library porting question - optional python bindings Message-ID: <82709c7e29849f965aef1319ce0a9093@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <CAG_PEeyLw_VS=pL-3J6NZycx9-b_qo9GRaxoeV34i5gq_Cx=bg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG_PEeyLw_VS=pL-3J6NZycx9-b_qo9GRaxoeV34i5gq_Cx=bg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:38:40 -0500 Chris Inacio <nacho319@gmail.com> wrote > All, > > I'm trying to build a port definition for a library/application that can > optionally include Python bindings. The library/application generally > depends on other C libraries to exist (ZMQ v3, Protobufs-C) and if you > enable Python support, then you need a Python interpreter plus > Python-protobufs & python zmq. > > Putting an OPTION of Python in the port file is easy. Including the > optional Python dependencies (and presumably targets - but I'm not that far > yet) seems to be a lot more complicated. I haven't found anything that > would tell me how I'm supposed to do that. I have found that I'm supposed > to add pyXX prefixes to the python targets. > > Does anyone know of a similar application/library that I can go look at? > Is there any documentation on how to solve this? Sure. You've read the Porters Handbook; https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ Right? :) Other than that, there's a myriad of ports in the ports tree. Almost all of which have (OPTIONAL) requirements. Your keyword here is; depends. :) HTH --Chris > > thanks, > Chris Inacio
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