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In-reply-to: <199508251300.OAA16567@server.netcraft.co.uk> (message from Paul Richards on Fri, 25 Aug 1995 14:00:39 +0100 (BST))
Subject: Re: Dependencies
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * I don't like the way dependencies currently work. 
 * 
 * I want to build ghostview but it depends on ghostscript so when I try
 * and compile it it first goes off to get ghostscript and builds that,
 * but I've already got ghostscript installed!
 * 
 * Can't the dependencies use pkg_* in some way to see if the package already
 * exists before trying to rebuild it again?

Uhh, it should.  The line:

  EXEC_DEPENDS=   gs:${PORTSDIR}/print/ghostscript

in the ghostview Makefile does exactly that, check if the program "gs" 
is in the search path (it uses "which"), and goes to build ghostscript 
only if it's not found.

Maybe you don't have /usr/local/bin in your root's search path, then
well sorry, it won't work, and I don't see any workaround for it.

Satoshi