depends_build

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 21, 2011, at 05:35, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Anyway, build.cmd will have the path to the right make:
> 
> build.type gnu
> 
> build.env MAKE=${build.cmd}
> 
> Both bsdmake and gnumake are provided by base, so there's
> no reason to use port dependencies unless *really* needed.

For example, in a couple cases, I found that ports would not build on Tiger, because its gnumake was too old, so in those ports I declared a dependency on port:gmake and modified build.cmd, inside a platform darwin 8 block. But again only do that if it's actually needed.