From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 13 20: 0:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D4614F8B for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 20:00:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA96362; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:00:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:00:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Arcady Genkin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports system *rocks* (was: CVSup conceptual question) In-Reply-To: <871zayvcps.fsf_-_@main.wgaf.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On 13 Oct 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Q: How do I find out what other ports does a port depend on? Easy - cd to the port you want to install and read the Makefile - there are three (actually 4) kinds of dependencies BUILD_DEPENDS - these ports are needed to build the port RUN_DEPENDS - these ports are needed to run the port LIB_DEPENDS - these ports libraries are needed for the port DEPENDS - if something manages to fall through the cracks of the above 3 Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message