Opportunistic (broken) build dependencies? (gdbm)

[Marius Schamschula]

I just added ac_cv_prog_AWK=awk to the configure.args for gdbm, as I did for gawk yesterday.

However, gdbm is not in the dependency chain of gawk, so I don’t know why MacPorts wants to install it before gawk.

> On Apr 25, 2017, at 5:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 25, 2017, at 04:57, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 25 April 2017 at 11:45, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I just experienced a failure to build gdbm during "port upgrade outdated".
>>> 
>>> The reason: configure checks for
>>>    for ac_prog in gawk mawk nawk awk
>>> and then calls "gawk" which is temporarily broken due to readline
>>> which has been upgraded some seconds before (while gawk wasn't yet).
>>> But gawk is not listed as build dependency, so MacPorts didn't know
>>> that gawk should be updated first.
>>> 
>>> What's the best solution in such cases?
>>> 
>>> Adding:
>>>    configure.env-append AWK=/usr/bin/awk
>>> 
>>> Or add a build dependency on gawk?
> 
> So far we've decided to do neither.
> 
>> The same problem when updating clisp. At which point I just "gave up"
>> and update gawk before running "port upgrade outdated" again.
> 
> This is what we've recommended so far.



Marius
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