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Date:      Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:04:14 -0800
From:      "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
To:        <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: library porting question - optional python bindings
Message-ID:  <7e308f12baf042f5972dfa7855774047@ultimatedns.net>
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On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:53:37 -0800 "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> wrote

> On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:38:40 -0500 Chris Inacio <nacho319@gmail.com> wrote
> 
> > All,
> > 
> > I'm trying to build a port definition for a library/application that can
> > optionally include Python bindings.  The library/application generally
> > depends on other C libraries to exist (ZMQ v3, Protobufs-C) and if you
> > enable Python support, then you need a Python interpreter plus
> > Python-protobufs & python zmq.
> > 
> > Putting an OPTION of Python in the port file is easy.  Including the
> > optional Python dependencies (and presumably targets - but I'm not that far
> > yet) seems to be a lot more complicated.  I haven't found anything that
> > would tell me how I'm supposed to do that.  I have found that I'm supposed
> > to add pyXX prefixes to the python targets.
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a similar application/library that I can go look at?
> > Is there any documentation on how to solve this?
> Sure. You've read the Porters Handbook;
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/
> Right? :)
> Other than that, there's a myriad of ports in the ports tree.
> Almost all of which have (OPTIONAL) requirements. Your keyword
> here is; depends. :)
If I understand you correctly; maybe something like;

if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MMYOPTION}
    RUN_DEPENDS=	${LOCALBASE}/lib/somelib:${PORTSDIR}/lang/python...
endif

Same is true for BUILD_DEPENDS


--Chris
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Chris Inacio
> 
>





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