Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:31:02 +0930 From: "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Depending on other ports with OPTIONS Message-ID: <20050426110102.GB80521@bigbird.logicsquad.net> In-Reply-To: <200504251539.07223.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <20050423062648.GE61472@bigbird.logicsquad.net> <20050425013415.GD33556@bigbird.logicsquad.net> <426C4B8A.7070508@FreeBSD.org> <200504251539.07223.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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--wzJLGUyc3ArbnUjN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 03:39:01PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Monday, 25. April 2005 03:44, Adam Weinberger wrote: > > Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > > > I've hit a wall here---can anyone give me a push in the right > > > direction? Even just pointing me at a port that depends on > > > certain OPTIONs having been chosen in another port would > > > probably be sufficient. I am willing to work it out from the > > > Makefiles. > > > > Really, the simplest thing is to determine whether someone has > > installed the proper flavour (for example, look for > > mysql-backend.file). If not, output an error message saying > > "Rebuild port foo with the mysql-backend enabled". I bet that'd be > > enough for most users. >=20 > The best thing to do would be splitting the libdbi-drivers port into > individual ports per backend (or make it a meta/master-port for > backend-specific ports), which you can then specifically depend > on. It's yet more work, but if the libdbi-drivers port-maintainer is > ok with the change in principle and you submit a reworked bunch of > libdbi-drivers-foo ports, it should be doable pretty quickly. That sounds good. I will contact the maintainer of libdbi-drivers and see what they think. --=20 Paul. w http://logicsquad.net/ h http://paul.hoadley.name/ --wzJLGUyc3ArbnUjN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCbh9u730Z/jysbzIRAhtiAJ46yWGwDqayYHWwCYXmeWtJ18/qvACfQNyG SCYtKHa/Ygrgy4TeNnCdtwA= =TUAW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wzJLGUyc3ArbnUjN--
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