HEADS UP: Latest round of bsd.*.mk changes

Andy Fawcett andy at athame.co.uk
Wed Feb 4 00:35:59 PST 2004


On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:27, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:12:00AM +0200, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> > I'd like to propose that USE_GETTEXT is altered to take different
> > parameters
> >
> > yes=LIB_DEPENDS
> > build=BUILD_DEPENDS
> > run=RUN_DEPENDS (not sure if any ports use it as a runtime dep
> > only)
>
> That seems unnecessary, as well as being a departure from convention.
> What's wrong with continuing to BUILD_DEPENDS on the gettext port?
> USE_GETTEXT was added to deal with shared library bumps, which are
> not an issue for these ports.

Indeed, and that is what we will do.

Although I quite like the suggestion for USE_GETTEXT_BUILD from Joe, so 
I will try and remember to PR it this evening when I get home (and have 
access to send-pr ;)

A.

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