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Date:      Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:07:48 +0100
From:      "Bradley T. Hughes" <bhughes@freebsd.org>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't compile www/node on rpi2
Message-ID:  <8be4cab4-febb-17d6-fa6c-422fb8085b78@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJuc1zP%2Bq6bTndL9ShCH=0wfdS5TrbWOqaAwEJNa97dM%2B40wUw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20190323213940.GA74509@www.zefox.net> <c2fd7325-ad2e-afbb-4f5b-3223e530d6d3@freebsd.org> <20190326021459.GA87373@www.zefox.net> <b8fcb348-6dd6-38b0-f1a3-fa84214bc7b3@freebsd.org> <CAJuc1zP%2Bq6bTndL9ShCH=0wfdS5TrbWOqaAwEJNa97dM%2B40wUw@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2019-03-26 19:07, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 00:24, Bradley T. Hughes <bhughes@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 2019-03-26 03:14, bob prohaska wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:23:26PM +0100, Bradley T. Hughes wrote:
>>
>> Looks like you need to upgrade www/libnghttp2 as well. :)
>>
>>> Thanks for reading, I'd be pleased to try any experiments suggested.
>>
>> In general, www/node requires that all dependencies are up-to-date. The
>> port doesn't explicitly list minimum versions of its dependencies, but I
>> am beginning to think that it should (this is not the first time I have
>> seen this kind of problem).
> 
> You shouldn't have to list the minimum version for dependencies. If
> someone is following the tip of the ports tree, it is expected that
> all the port dependencies are up to date when building a port. All the
> port-management tools in ports-mgmt assume this, and build
> port-dependancies as required. When building ports, it is always best
> to use one of the build-tools (ie: poudriere, synth , portmaster)
> instead of by hand.

I may not have to, no, but since I have had a couple of reports about 
build errors due to out-of-date dependencies, I can help out fellow 
users by giving them a helpful message instead of a daunting build error.

Right? :)

-- 
Bradley T. Hughes
bhughes@freebsd.org



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