From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Apr 7 1: 9:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from stade.demon.co.uk (stade.demon.co.uk [158.152.29.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E4E155FF for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 01:09:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aw1@stade.co.uk) Received: (from aw1@localhost) by stade.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA83928 for ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:05:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from aw1) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:05:07 +0100 From: Adrian Wontroba To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: always build dependencies Message-ID: <19990407090507.E27106@titus.stade.co.uk> Reply-To: aw1@stade.co.uk References: <199904060408.VAA06613@bubble.didi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199904060408.VAA06613@bubble.didi.com>; from Satoshi Asami on Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 09:08:52PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: Yes, I need some of that. X-Phone: +(44) 121 681 6677 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 09:08:52PM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: > What do people think about the following patch? Basically you define > "ALWAYS_BUILD_DEPENDS" and the dependencies will be built regardless > of what the dependency checks turn out. Sort of the opposite of > NO_DEPENDS. It should help people like Nik. A good idea I think. I've been bitten too many times by stale ports causing obscure errors when compiling or using ports which depend upon them. -- Adrian Wontroba To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message