passing default variants to dependencies?

[Joshua Root]

Asking to ensure that your dependencies have certain variants applied is
depending on variants. Restricting it to variants that the dependent
port has itself doesn't change the fundamental issues.

- Josh

On 2014-11-17 09:05 , David Strubbe wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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