Questions on dependencies

[Clemens Lang]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 10:27:04AM +1100, Joshua Root wrote:
> If they are needed at build time and runtime, use depends_lib. If they
> are only needed at runtime, use depends_run.

is there any difference between listing a package in both depends_build
and depends_run compared to just listing it in depends_lib, e.g. in how
licensing stuff propagates?

Since MacPorts ensures depends_run dependencies are installed before
attempting to build a package, we usually do not notice a depends_run
dependency that should rather be depends_build.

I'm currently trying to improve trace mode to a point where every
package I have installed builds fine using trace mode and I've come
across the gcc ports, which set
  depends_run port:ld64 port:cctools
but fail to configure when trace mode (correctly) hides files installed
by these ports. I wonder whether the correct fix would be to convert
those into depends_lib, or just add them as depends_build, too.

-- 
Clemens Lang