Is it possible to specify variant as part of depends_lib?

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

Do you *really* mean root5 ? port info says it requires root6

Titan ~ > port info gds
gds @2.18.7 (science)
Variants:             universal

Description:          LIGO Scientific Collaboration Algorithm Library 
containing core routines for gravitational wave data analysis.
Homepage: 
https://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/daswg/projects/lalsuite.html

Build Dependencies:   pkgconfig, swig, swig-python
Library Dependencies: python27, py27-numpy, curl, expat, fftw-3, 
fftw-3-single, hdf5, jsoncpp, ldas-tools-framecpp, metaio, root6
Platforms:            darwin
License:              GPL
Maintainers:          Email: ed.maros at ligo.org, GitHub: emaros
                       Policy: openmaintainer


I did indeed recently change the default python variant of root6 to be 
python36, from python27, just to be ready for the time python 2.7 is 
officially depreciated. I don't really think going back to python27 
makes sense, so I would suggest going forward you should look to making 
python36 the default for gds as well.

cheers Chris

On 18/04/18 18:39, Edward Maros wrote:
> I have a package (gds) that has a build requirement on port root5 with
> the variant +python27.
> 
> Currently the buildbot system will not build the gds package because it
> installs the root5 package with only default variants.
> 
> Any ideas on how to get the variant passed (at least for the buildbot
> system) so I can address any issues related to the gds package?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Edward
>