passing default variants to dependencies?

[David Strubbe]

Thanks for the comments. I'm not trying to depend on a variant, and I am
already using active_variants (that is what blocks fftw-3 without a Fortran
variant). I just wonder why default variants are not passed to dependencies
(because other variants do seem to be passed to dependencies) and whether
there is some way to get around this.

David

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> On 2014-11-17 08:52 , David Strubbe wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there a way to make default variants be passed to dependencies when
> > installing them? My octopus port depends on fftw-3 and needs it to be
> > built with a Fortran variant. octopus has +gcc48 as default variant, and
> > building fftw-3 +gcc48 will work. But on the buildbots it just builds
> > fftw-3 with no variant for the dependency, which then does not work. How
> > can I solve this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
>
> No, you can't depend on a variant. This isn't buildbot-specific; anyone
> running 'port install octopus' from a fresh installation will see the
> same result.
>
> - Josh
>
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