From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 06:44:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45E7B16A41F for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:44:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mail2.fluidhosting.com [204.14.90.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 520D543D58 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:44:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 99854 invoked by uid 399); 29 Dec 2005 06:44:47 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Dec 2005 06:44:47 -0000 Message-ID: <43B385DD.2000909@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:44:46 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <20051229015922.GA7607@lastamericanempire.com> <43B3741D.1080907@obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <43B3741D.1080907@obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl ports...dependencies required only for `make test` X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:44:49 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > Zach Thompson wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> If a Perl module requires a several additional ports solely for "make >> test" >> should they be included in the port's BUILD_DEPENDS? If so, should >> they be >> excluded from the RUN_DEPENDS? >> > At some point I'd like to make running regression tests the norm on the > package build cluster. I'd say you should add them to BUILD_DEPENDS by > default. They wouldn't be added to RUN_DEPENDS since they are not > required after the package is installed. I think regression tests on the cluster is a great idea, but can we hide this behind PACKAGE_BUILDING or something? As a perl user, I would not want to have a bunch of dependencies to install and maintain whose sole purpose is to support tests that I'll never run. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection