[macports-ports] branch master updated: libcaer: new port

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Mar 1 15:55:35 UTC 2018


On Mar 1, 2018, at 09:50, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

>> The builds failed on the buildbot, which is how I noticed the problem. On the buildbot, we activate the dependencies and then make sure the dependencies' build dependencies are deactivated before building the port, thus exposing the problem.
> 
> When exactly do we do that? I'm not aware of it. This is the script
> being called:
>    https://github.com/macports/mpbb/blob/master/mpbb-install-dependencies
> 
> I do remember some special handling of dependencies, but I fail to see
> when the build dependencies would be deactivated.
> 
> We certainly remove dependencies between builds, but I'm not aware of
> uninstallation of build dependencies. And in any case the go scripts
> ultimately call mpbb, so if we change mpbb, it should automatically be
> reflected in Travis as well.

I thought I had seen some output in a buildbot log at some point that suggested this is what we were doing. But I guess I misinterpreted the log, and we're not doing that after all.



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