From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 12 11:38:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AEDB37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:38:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-52.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689ED43FBD for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:38:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D9D266D6A; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:38:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2EFC3949; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:38:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:38:49 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mike Silbersack Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compile-only dependencies; am I rehashing an old debate? Message-ID: <20030312193849.GA87298@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030312132351.O13626@odysseus.silby.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wac7ysb48OaltWcw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030312132351.O13626@odysseus.silby.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:26:05PM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: >=20 > Sorry if this is some old debate / unfinished feature, but it just occured > to me that some port dependencies are actually only relevent at compile > time, not afterwards. For example, I was just clearing away an old imake, > and was warned that half a bazillion packages needed it. However, it was > clear they they only needed it to _build_, not to run. I have a feeling > that this same problem applies to a decent number of other packages. Do > the ports makefiles have any provision for creating compile-only > dependencies? That's what BUILD_DEPENDS is for. They can be removed after installation if you want. Kris --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+b4zIWry0BWjoQKURAmKcAJ4yWPVpBKU86Pf8MdiheM0igh0SvACePOmr Y6okONX+xd6vqhaIZHawC64= =9fiF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message