Questions on dependencies

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Fri Nov 1 10:17:47 PDT 2013


On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 04:27:40PM +0100, Clemens Lang wrote:
> 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.

The same thing applies to xorg-xcb-proto declaring depends_run on python
packages but checking for the python binaries in configure.

To: Jeremy Huddleston, who maintains xorg-xcb-proto

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Clemens Lang



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