Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:27:28 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>, freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dependency question Message-ID: <3C4BED10.725FFBD3@FreeBSD.org> References: <20020120205118.GA447@gforce.johnson.home> <1011565282.28534.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Clarke wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 15:51, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> > This is probably a rather basic question but since I could not find an
> > archive for the gnome list I have to ask.
> >
> > I have a port that I am working on that requires gtkhtml, gal, and
> > gnomeprint. Now, if I am not mistaken, none of these are pulled in as
> > dependencies in the gnome meta port but are pulled in as dependencies
> > of ports that are called as part of the gnome meta port. The port in
> > question uses the gnome environment and links in many gnome libraries.
> > Also, configure calls gnome-config, which is from gnomelibs. I would
> > like to use the USE_GNOME make variable in the port Makefile and my
> > question is, do I need to explicitly include any of gtkhtml, gal, or
> > gnomeprint as dependencies or is USE_GNOME sufficient?
>
> USE_GNOME will import what you need except for gnomeprint. If your port
> doesn't need bonobo, you'll have to LIB_DEPENDS gnomeprint. USE_GNOME
> will take care of environment for you as well.
There is another consideration, namely the problem with shared
directories under ${PREFIX}/share/gnome. Most GNOME packages use them
extensively to store their .desktop files, pixmaps, .omf files, help
files and so on, so that the dependencies should be constructed in a
way that ensures that a package that installs file(s) into shared
directory will be deleted before a package which "owns" that directory
(i.e. has an appropriate @dirrm in its pkg-plist). Since most of
GNOME ports install their shortcuts into menu directory owned by
gnomecore all you should do it to define USE_GNOME. There is even a
tool called ports/Tools/scripts/gnomedepends.py, which inspects your
port's pkg-plist and tells you which packages should be put into its
dependency chain to warrant correct removal of shared dirts.
-Maxim
P.S. Joe, please consider refining this explanation and turn it into
another para in our FAQ. Tnx.
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