Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:53:00 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to depend on source for building? Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.981229025119.26760E-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9812292140080.12902-100000@bragg>
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On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> A port I'm working on (iTCL 3.0.1) depends on the source code for TCL 8.0
> to compile - i.e. it's basically a TCL 8.0 extension and needs access to the
> source code to compile itself. How can I achieve this in the port skeleton?
> The TCL 8.0 port is a build-time dependency (libtcl80.so, etc), but it also
> needs to have the source tree extracted in /usr/ports. I could add the
> tcl8.0.4.tar.gz distfile to DISTFILES and have it unpacked it in itcl/work,
> but that seems like a waste of space (and not to mention I'd have to hack the
> build process which looks for
> TCL_SRC_DIR='/usr2/ports/lang/tcl80/work/tcl8.0.4' in tclConfig.sh).
BUILD_DEPENDS= /nonexistant:${PORTSDIR}/lang/tcl80:patch
TCL_SRC_DIR= ${PORTSDIR}/lang/tcl80/work/tcl8.0.4
This may not obey Satoshi's readonly requirements though..
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