Question about build dependencies

Tabitha McNerney tabithamc at gmail.com
Thu May 29 22:05:04 PDT 2008


On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

> Tabitha McNerney wrote:
>
>> I have what might seem to be a dumb question. I noticed today that the
>> MacPort named "libiconv" version 1.12 has a build dependency on another port
>> named gperf, specifically:
>>
>>    $ port deps libiconv
>>
>>    libiconv has build dependencies on:
>>
>>    gperf
>>
> Just as another side note, I made some changes to 'port deps' in trunk. If
> you use the -v flag it will print the real dependency as specified in the
> Portfile.
>
> --snip--
>
> $ port -v deps libiconv
> libiconv has build dependencies on:
>        bin:gperf:gperf
>
> --snap--
>
> Of course, only helpful for people running trunk at the moment.


Ranier this is quite helpful because I'm putting together a document for my
organization which keeps track of all the ports we use and their direct
dependencies (including their dependency types: build, library, run).

Thanks!

T.M.


>
>
> Rainer
>
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