Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 09:48:10 -0600 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> To: Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>, FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to best check a configuration of another port/package? Message-ID: <CAP7rwch4Pfqx==it9ZiAVDHpFbHKNEppf0FBtGJi6CaXkx6hig@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <736af897-818e-68cd-c354-f295d03fb176@bluerosetech.com> References: <alpine.LSU.2.21.1906081755150.3441@anthias.pfeifer.com> <CAP7rwchv02%2B=XsfmJwECdfhh=4gm43aMRSjLb%2B_FcDpJghak6w@mail.gmail.com> <736af897-818e-68cd-c354-f295d03fb176@bluerosetech.com>
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On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 11:00 PM Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> wrote: > > On 2019-06-08 9:57, Adam Weinberger wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 10:02 AM Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote: > >> > >> In https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237688 we had > >> a user report against lang/gcc* ports that could be traced back to > >> a certain functionality (option) in another port (devel/binutils) > >> missing. > >> > >> In pseudo-code this could be addressed as follows in lang/gcc* > >> > >> .if $(binutils built statically) > >> IGNORE= GCC requires dynamically linked binutils > >> .endif > >> > >> Now the question is: How to implement something like this practically? > > > > What you have there won't work, because `make index` won't work, plus > > Makefiles shouldn't be doing external calls if they don't have to. > > You'll also have a problem whereby LOCALBASE isn't defined yet, and I > > don't believe that IGNORE after bsd.port.pre.mk will work (I could be > > wrong about that). > > > > You have two options: > > 1) Turn it into a pre-configure, which is slightly ugly for the > > end-user but still gets the job done > > pre-configure: > > if some file in binutils is static; then echo "NOPE"; exit 1; fi > > > > 2) (The correct way to do it) Create a binutils-static slave port, > > remove the static option from binutils proper, and depend specifically > > on the non-static port. > > Why is a slave port the correct option here instead of flavouring binutils? No, you're absolutely right. Flavours is the right way to do it now. I keep forgetting about them, because I don't in any way understand how to use them. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org
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