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Date:      Fri, 21 Aug 1998 11:12:43 +0200
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, cracauer@cons.org
Cc:        hoek@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ilu Makefile
Message-ID:  <19980821111243.B10686@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <199808210138.SAA10761@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 06:38:04PM -0700
References:  <19980820151620.A28383@cons.org> <199808210138.SAA10761@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>

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In <199808210138.SAA10761@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>, Satoshi Asami wrote: 
>  * I'm the maintainer. I need to build PLIST on the fly, unless I want
>  * the port's build to depend on many other big language packages that
>  * are irrelevant to 99% of the users (who want to use C, C++ or maybe
>  * Java). 
>  * 
>  * I spent quite some time to make it work in the cases of
>  * - compiling with any target language install or not installed
> 
> I assume you mean the port auto-detects what's installed and builds
> only stuff that's needed to support those language.

Yes, ILU does this. My port just determines what has been built by
inspecting the installed system and builds PLIST from it.

>  * - building a binary package and installing it on a machine with less
>  *   languages installed.
>  * - the other way round
> 
> Do you have a minimum feature set you want for packages?  If that's
> the case, you can add *_DEPENDS conditional to
> defined(PACKAGE_BUILDING) to ensure they are installed first.

With the exception of imake, a basic FreeBSD system is
sufficient. 

Martin
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