From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 12 11:48:31 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 1267637B401 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:48:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEB4C43FBD for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:48:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 81013 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2003 19:48:26 -0000 Received: from niwun.pair.com (HELO localhost) (209.68.2.70) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 12 Mar 2003 19:48:26 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 209.68.2.70 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:45:16 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: Kris Kennaway Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compile-only dependencies; am I rehashing an old debate? In-Reply-To: <20030312193849.GA87298@rot13.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20030312134139.N13626@odysseus.silby.com> References: <20030312132351.O13626@odysseus.silby.com> <20030312193849.GA87298@rot13.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:26:05PM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > > > 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 Hm, then everything should have been good... I'll see why those ports were confused late. Thanks, Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message