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Date:      Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:56:36 +0200
From:      Mel Flynn <rflynn@acsalaska.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: autodetecting dependencies
Message-ID:  <4F83A164.8060107@acsalaska.net>
In-Reply-To: <4F839499.8050103@missouri.edu>
References:  <4F839499.8050103@missouri.edu>

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On 4/10/2012 04:02, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> 1.  Don't worry about it.  tinderbox builds will never build port A in
> the presence of package B.
> 
> 2.  Have the Makefile of port A detect whether package B is installed,
> and if it is then add B as a dependency of A.
> 
> 3.  Cripple the configure in port A so that it doesn't autodetect for
> package B.  (Sometimes this can be done using a suitable CONFIGURE_ARGS,
> but not in my particular situation.)

4. Add OPTION PACKAGE_B. And cripple configure through EXTRA_PATCH if
set to off.


-- 
Mel



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