Confused about build dependencies here

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Dec 5 04:00:40 UTC 2020



On Dec 4, 2020, at 21:24, Michael wrote:

> Ok, this seems ... odd. I didn't know about Supertux until I saw it mentioned, and figured it seemed like a good game.
> 
>> bash-3.2# port install supertux
>> --->  Computing dependencies for supertux
>> The following dependencies will be installed: 
>> boost
>> clang-9.0
>> clang_select
>> cmake
>> glew
>> ld64
>> ld64-274
>> libomp
>> libraqm
>> libsdl2_image
>> libuv
>> llvm-3.7
>> llvm-9.0
>> lzma
>> physfs
>> xar
> 
> Why is it installing llvm for both 3.7 AND 9.0? 

Because they are declared as dependencies of one or more of the ports listed above, because somebody determined that that was necessary. You don't need to worry about why. If you let MacPorts install the dependencies, the installation should work.


> (And yes, reclaim did wipe out all sorts of build builds.)


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