inconsistent dependency information

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Jun 15 16:21:39 PDT 2010


On 2010-6-16 09:17 , Joshua Root wrote:
> Build deps have never been recorded in the registry. The important thing
> here is what's in the index. x264 only depends on yasm if you are on
> Snow Leopard and building for x86_64, or if the asm variant is set. This
> is the sort of situation that prompted the switch in 1.9 from a single
> PortIndex generated on the server to one for each supported platform.
> Are you running 1.9.0?

Actually, even if you are, the build_arch could still be different. This
is just one of those situations where using a pregenerated index can't
get everything right. Port_cutleaves could theoretically get it right by
running the portfiles, but that's a lot slower than reading the index.

- Josh


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