Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 03:19:39 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: paul@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dependencies Message-ID: <199508291019.DAA14224@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199508281806.TAA10360@server.netcraft.co.uk> (message from Paul Richards on Mon, 28 Aug 1995 19:06:51 %2B0100 (BST))
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* A lot of them don't. We probably need two dependencies, one for * ports that need things to build and one that need things in order to run. * The first could be fatal the second should not be. This is a very good point, and actually discussed on this list a while ago. I'll send out a proposal for reorganizing the *_DEPENDS variables soon (like early next week). * If necessary this should be changed to check the existence of the file * and whether it's executable, relying on the environment path is * not working right. I think we can make the check a little more "intelligent", for instance by checking for /usr/local/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin if it's not in the search path AND the program is not found, and printing out a warning about them if it's in either one (these two should cover 97% of our ports). Satoshi
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