circular dependencies

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Thu Feb 19 23:23:42 PST 2015


> On Feb 20, 2015, at 1:46 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there any support in MacPorts for circular dependencies (as far as such a thing is possible)?

No. A port’s dependency graph must be acyclic.

> I'm building the freetype +infinality version with harfbuzz support, which depends on cairo, which ultimately depends on freetype. Would that make it impossible to install that port variant without bootstrapping with the regular variant?

Yes.

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