Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 23:42:27 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dynamic dependencies Message-ID: <20010323234227.D31542@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <20010323174058.B5821@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:40:58PM -0500 References: <20010323233057.C31542@heechee.tobez.org> <20010323174058.B5821@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>
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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.
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