From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 12 11:29:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 683A337B401 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:29:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FBDB43FB1 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:29:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 73521 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2003 19:29:17 -0000 Received: from niwun.pair.com (HELO localhost) (209.68.2.70) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 12 Mar 2003 19:29:17 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 209.68.2.70 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:26:05 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Compile-only dependencies; am I rehashing an old debate? Message-ID: <20030312132351.O13626@odysseus.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sorry if this is some old debate / unfinished feature, but it just occured to me that some port dependencies are actually only relevent at compile time, not afterwards. For example, I was just clearing away an old imake, and was warned that half a bazillion packages needed it. However, it was clear they they only needed it to _build_, not to run. I have a feeling that this same problem applies to a decent number of other packages. Do the ports makefiles have any provision for creating compile-only dependencies? Just curious, Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message