Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 15:10:11 +0200 From: Oliver Braun <obraun@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: KOMATSU Shinichiro <koma2@jiro.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Riccardo Torrini <riccardo@torrini.org>, Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> Subject: Re: bsd.port.mk dependency loop checking patch (Re: Who broke 'make clean' for ports ?) Message-ID: <20020511131011.GA24242@nemesis.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <3CDD1605.38B25E9D@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.20020510190126.riccardo@torrini.org> <20020510172656.GD13627@dan.emsphone.com> <20020510173132.GA46688@electricjellyfish.net> <20020511090904.69E5B1949@taro.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <3CDD1605.38B25E9D@FreeBSD.org>
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* Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> [2002-05-11 15:00]:
> KOMATSU Shinichiro wrote:
> >
> > (add To: ports@freebsd.org)
> >
> > From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>
> > Subject: Re: Who broke 'make clean' for ports ?
> > Date: Sat, May 11, 2002 at 02:31:32AM JST
> >
> > > there's a circular dependency that was just introduced to gettext.
> > > gettext now depends on expat, which depends on gmake, which depends on
> > > gettext.
> >
> > Recently, I wrote a patch for bsd.port.mk that checks circular dependency.
> > If a dependency loop is found, it gives you a warning and
> > does not invoke 'make' process any further.
> >
> > Someone, please test the patch below.
> > If no problem is found, I will send-pr(8).
> I don't think that we really need such patch. In 99.9999% of cases it
> would just waste CPU cycles. Circular dependency is a bug and as such
> it doesn't need to be a supported "special case".
But it might be a good idea to incorporate this functionality into
${PORTSDIR}/devel/portlint.
Regards,
Olli
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