Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 13:25:32 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@netcraft.co.uk> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: paul@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dependencies Message-ID: <199508271225.NAA00628@server.netcraft.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199508260925.CAA05181@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Aug 26, 95 02:25:38 am
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In reply to Satoshi Asami who said
>
> 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.
Can't we use the pkg* interface to find out if a package is installed or
not? It's much more robust thatn relying on the path being set properly
for all users who might try and install a port.
--
Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member.
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