Apache 24 woes

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Mon Nov 21 17:54:29 CET 2016


On 2016-11-22 03:46 , Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2016, at 5:34 AM, Vincent Habchi <vince at macports.org> wrote:
>> 2. APR-UTIL should:
>> 	a. Be dependant on whatever db version is installed and not db46. I wrote this:
>>>> 	# DB dependency
>> 	set db_list [lsort [glob ${prefix}/lib/db??]]
>> 	set db_most_recent [lindex [split [lindex $db_list 0] /] end]
>> 	if {$db_most_recent == ""} { set db_most_recent "db60" }
>>
>> 	depends_lib port:apr port:expat port:libiconv port:$db_most_recent port:sqlite3
>>>
> no, we strive for reproducible builds - having the port install something different depending on what's already on the person's system is not something we want to do.

It's also incompatible with binary distribution (for closely related 
reasons).

- Josh


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