Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 16:31:25 -0500 From: Bush Doctor I <dervish@goku.cl.msu.edu> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lesstiff not installed as a dependency Message-ID: <19991102163125.D14194@goku.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991102203556.E317@marder-1>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 08:35:56PM %2B0000 References: <19991102203556.E317@marder-1>
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Out of da blue Mark Ovens aka (mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) said:
> The xmcd port requires lesstiff and, since I don't have it installed,
> gives this message:
>
> marder-1# cd /usr/ports/audio/xmcd
> marder-1# make
> ===> xmcd-2.5 requires Motif. LessTif is an LGPL implementation of the Motif API. A port is available in ports/x11-toolkits/lesstif. Please see /etc/make.conf.
> marder-1#
>
> Why does it not simply install it as a dependency as is the usual
> behaviour? Yes, I have looked at /etc/make.conf as the message says,
> but all I can see are the options:
>
> #HAVE_MOTIF= yes
> #MOTIF_STATIC= yes
> #MOTIFLIB= -L${X11BASE}/lib -lXm
>
> The only guess I can make is that if lesstiff were installed as a
> dependency then xmcd still wouldn't build as make(1) would assume
> that MOTIF wasn't installed.
That is true. As it is now you would have to build lesstiff, uncomment
"HAVE_MOTIF= yes" in /etc/make.conf and then build xmcd. The question is
do you want the port build process to modify make.conf if lesstiff is needed?
>
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