Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:57:03 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Leinier Cruz Salfran <salfrancl.listas@gmail.com> Subject: Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking? Message-ID: <20100422225703.GB14572@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20100422225417.GA14572@dan.emsphone.com> References: <n2ya2585ef1004140923s2acb8b2ctf7c9b449cb66f208@mail.gmail.com> <20100414174853.GC43908@dan.emsphone.com> <g2x539c60b91004221538nc58baf36m60e2eb71a395a7f5@mail.gmail.com> <20100422225417.GA14572@dan.emsphone.com>
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In the last episode (Apr 22), Dan Nelson said:
> In the last episode (Apr 22), Steve Franks said:
> > (such as myself) incorrectly pointing a port at libpng.5 instead of any
> > libpng, or libpng >= 5. Once the ports tree is 'poisoned' in this
> > fashion, there's really no going back. I'd sure vote for an audit of
> > this behavior as a summer of code project.
>
> I don't think the porter's handbook mentions the DEPENDS_* comparison
> operators at all, so unless you read (and understood) the
> ${deptype:L}-depends target in bsd.port.mk, you might not know it existed.
Nevermind; it's there.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-depend.html#AEN2246
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Dan Nelson
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