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From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
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Subject: Re: Dynamic dependencies
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:40:58PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:30:57PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote:
> > What is the acceptable way to generate dependencies on the fly, during
> > configure or patch stage?
> 
> Could you be more specific?

Sure.  A p5 port that *may* depend on

   www/mod_perl
   mail/p5-MIME-Lite
   mail/p5-Mail-Tools
   mail/p5-Mail-Sendmail

I use dialog(1) to ask for the user's preference (detecting beforehand
which of those are already installed), and would like to set the
dependencies accordingly.

> > I need to alter both BUILD_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS, but might actually
> > get away with just RUN_DEPENDS.
> 
> Set a standard, must-have etc. list of *_DEPENDS in the *_DEPENDS
> section, then later:
> 
> *_DEPENDS+=	...:${PORTSDIR}/...

Naeh, that's too easy.  :-)  Besides, it isn't going to work.  :-/

Cheers,
#Anton.
-- 
May the tuna salad be with you.

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