Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 03:17:06 -0600 From: Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: dependency loop in editors/vim with GTK3 option Message-ID: <201812150917.wBF9H66V019974@sdf.org>
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There is a dependency recursion loop in the build process for editors/vim
if one selects the GTK3 config menu option. The only way I've found so far to
get around this is to choose the GTK2 option instead.
With GTK3 selected, graphics/librsvg2 becomes a dependency, which, in
turn, is dependent upon lang/vala. lang/vala depends upon devel/dconf, which
depends upon devel/gconf2. devel/gconf2 depends upon graphics/graphviz, which
depends upon lang/vala! The recursion occurs there and was found by following
the instructions in UPDATING for the upgrade to perl5.28 when using portmaster.
The command shown in the instructions is "portmaster -f", so the -f forces all
dependencies and dependent ports to be rebuilt.
As nearly as I can see, this dependency recursion loop breaks any port
involving lang/vala when portmaster -f is used. In the case of editors/vim,
a usable workaround is to choose gtk2 instead of gtk3, but for many other
ports, the perl upgrade's admonition to rebuilt ports that depend upon the
perl library to omit -f when using portmaster while providing portmaster a
*complete list* of all ports to be built. Provided an acceptable version
of lang/vala is already installed, it will be used, and the dependency loop
gets skipped over because there is no need to build lang/vala. Of course,
if one does that, there is no guarantee that the resulting binaries installed
for any of the ports in the recursion loop will function properly, given that
they may be based upon obsolete versions of the other ports in the loop.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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