Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 09:29:37 -0800 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Proposal 3: Non-executable file in *_DEPEND Message-ID: <199511171729.JAA00967@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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Here goes proposal #3. (Boy am I glad the release is out or what,
this is so much fun)
Some people have been complaining that the dependency mechanism is not
flexible enough, i.e., {FETCH,BUILD,RUN}_DEPENDS can only take an
executable as an argument. Although this was intended to protect us
from cases when the target system has a non-standard path (e.g.,
/usr/opt instead of /usr/local) by using the "which" command that will
DTRT as long as the PATH is set correctly, it was impossible to depend
on a package that doesn't contain any executables.
Thus, I propose the following change to the *_DEPEND paradigm:
@ For FETCH_DEPENDS, BUILD_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS, if the argument
starts with a '/', the existence of the pathname will be tested
("test -e"). Otherwise, they behave as before, and will be tested
by "which".
@ No change to LIB_DEPENDS, DEPENDS.
What do people think?
Satoshi
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