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Date:      Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:17:59 +0100
From:      Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
To:        Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newbie creating a port: tracing dependencies
Message-ID:  <20061204201759.GA76749@heechee.tobez.org>
In-Reply-To: <45747E97.6040505@locolomo.org>
References:  <45747E97.6040505@locolomo.org>

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On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:01:27PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote:

> Ok, source compiles fine although I haven't tested it also works. But: I 
> created this port on my working laptop which has a bunch of other apps.
> 
> So I was wondering, how do I figure out direct dependencies? And how do 
> I figure out whether these should be LIB_DEPENDS, BUILD_DEPENDS or 
> RUN_DEPENDS or some other?
> 
> Is there a trick to trace the dependencies, and figure out which port 
> provides that dependency? - except for building on a clean machine and 
> install stuff until things work?

I would suggest a clean jail on the same machine.  It is easy and fast to
set up such a configuration (and keep it clean for the future porting work,
as well).

\Anton.
-- 
We're going for 'working' here. 'clean' is for people with skills...
-- Flemming Jacobsen



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