SVN interdependencies

vincent habchi vince at macports.org
Fri Aug 5 10:45:46 PDT 2011


Jeremy,

>> Hmmm… I must confess I’m pretty neophyte with metaports. Is there a
>> way to specify that llvm should be built before dragonegg?

(You’re mad at UTF-8 ? ;))
> 
> You can do something that will make people cringe over the semantics;
> force it by putting llvm as an extract phase and library dependency for
> this meta port. Simply listing them in the order you want as library
> dependencies may also suffice. Test it! :-)

Okay, thanks. I’ll try that and keep you posted.

> A meta port would be one that is itself empty but depends on a collection
> of ports. So this meta package would depend on llvm and dragonegg, while
> doing nothing else itself.

I thought there was some special declaration or other rule to abide by for a metaport (I guess this come from my old NetBSD PKGSRC habits).

Vincent
 


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