Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 16:26:58 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal 3: Non-executable file in *_DEPEND Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951117162627.11644B-100000@latte.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199511171729.JAA00967@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> 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?
Yeah, that sounds useable.
>
> Satoshi
>
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