Problems compiling Apache2 under 5.2.1-P1

Alex Dupre ale at FreeBSD.org
Sat Mar 13 01:46:11 PST 2004


Adam Weinberger wrote:

> I recognize that a number of ports use WANT_* in this manner, but if
> separate WANT_* behaviour is being phased out, why not just use
> BUILD_DEPENDS to achieve the desired effect?

The differences would be that we'll not have AUTO(MAKE|CONF|HEADER|...) 
automatically set (and some other variables). This was the reason of 
setting WANT_* instead of the specific dependency.

--
Alex Dupre


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