missing build dependencies when a rebuild is triggered?

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Tue Mar 5 14:56:25 PST 2013


On Mar 4, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:

> I think I might have hit an odd edgecase...
> Have an up-to-date package installed (in my case it was libglade2), go to build a pkg of it and MacPorts says it needs rebuilt due to the Portfile having changed. So far so good.
> 
> Upon attempting to rebuild, the build dependencies remained deactivated and thus build failed when trying to use autoreconf.
> 
> Do we forget to re-evaluate dependencies during a post-archive phase rebuild?

From a cursory glance at base, it *looks* like dependencies should be reevaluated, but I can't say for sure. It's certainly an issue, if you ran across it; you should probably file a ticket.

vq


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