How is this possible?

Wesley Shields wxs at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 13 12:18:05 UTC 2008


On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:47:34PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On February 13, 2008 1:00:50 AM +0000 Shaun Amott <shaun at FreeBSD.org> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:38:31PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>>> 
>>> The Makefile has:
>>> LIB_DEPENDS+=   ${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}/pcapy.so:${PORTSDIR}/net/py-pcapy
>>> 
>>> How is it possible to get "the file doesn't exist" when the file does
>>> in  fact exist?  Very weird.
>>> 
>> 
>> LIB_DEPENDS expects a library name/version. The dependency is checked
>> with ldconfig; although the error message is misleading in this case.
> 
> Thanks, Shaun.  So it should be RUN_DEPENDS?

More than likely, yes.  Unless it is needed to build, in which case it
should be a BUILD_DEPENDS.

-- WXS


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