Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:44:42 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Depending on other ports with OPTIONS Message-ID: <426C4B8A.7070508@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050425013415.GD33556@bigbird.logicsquad.net> References: <20050423062648.GE61472@bigbird.logicsquad.net> <20050423063143.GA96226@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050423071716.GG61472@bigbird.logicsquad.net> <20050425013415.GD33556@bigbird.logicsquad.net>
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Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 04:47:16PM +0930, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > >>On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:31:43PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >> >>>The solution is to make a slave port that enables the option you >>>need, depend on that, and make it conflict with the other >>>non-enabled versions of the port. >> >>Just bear with me for a few more minutes... So the approach would >>be to make refdb-mysql, refdb-pgsql and refdb-sqlite, each of which >>depend on the appropriate libdbi-driver, and refdb with common code? >>How do I make these slaves conflict with the non-enabled versions of >>libdbi-drivers---that is, how does >>"CONFLICTS=libdbi-drivers-0.7.1_2" differentiate between having >>chosen, say, libmysql or libpgsql when it was built? Or have I >>misunderstood your advice? > > > I've hit a wall here---can anyone give me a push in the right > direction? Even just pointing me at a port that depends on certain > OPTIONs having been chosen in another port would probably be > sufficient. I am willing to work it out from the Makefiles. Really, the simplest thing is to determine whether someone has installed the proper flavour (for example, look for mysql-backend.file). If not, output an error message saying "Rebuild port foo with the mysql-backend enabled". I bet that'd be enough for most users. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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