From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Mon Aug 21 22:44:39 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99110DD8EDC for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2017 22:44:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.73.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com", Issuer "dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 802A26499F for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2017 22:44:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from [74.134.208.22] ([74.134.208.22:56265] helo=localhost) by dnvrco-omsmta02 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id B1/D6-25924-F426B995; Mon, 21 Aug 2017 22:44:32 +0000 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 22:44:15 +0000 Message-ID: From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Synth and circular dependencies X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.64.7:25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 22:44:39 -0000 from RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com Mon Aug 21 15:28:49 UTC 2017: > On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:19:24 +0000 > Thomas Mueller wrote: > > But on this computer, no such system crashes, but I ran into circular > > dependencies > Try removing any port options that aren't absolutely essential. > > It seems the ports go overboard with an awful lot of dependencies, of > > which not all install with the main port. So I expect some of these > > dependencies might be false dependencies. > They are probably just build dependencies. It is still disappointing to find devel/git or sysutils/coreutils were not installed. Email from FreeBSD lists is slow coming to my inbox, so I am respoonding from the web interface to the emailing lists, and on the other computer, now running NetBSD. I ran "make show-depends" on NetBSD with pkgsrc, dependencies are generally far less/fewer than on FreeBSD with ports. But FreeBSD ports seems to go overboard now with dependencies, creating circular dependencies along the way. I rebooted to an older FreeBSD installation (current/11 amd64 from January 2016, no longer supported). I went to /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto , ran "make all-depends-list", and one line that showed up was /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto depends on itself. Otherwise, on newer system, I see circular dependencies running "make all-depends-list", finding textproc/xmlto depended on graphics/gd and vice versa. It didn't seem broken back in January 2016, and I still use it for Seamonkey 2.39 and other things. Tom