autodetecting dependencies

[Mel Flynn]

On 4/10/2012 04:02, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> 1.  Don't worry about it.  tinderbox builds will never build port A in
> the presence of package B.
> 
> 2.  Have the Makefile of port A detect whether package B is installed,
> and if it is then add B as a dependency of A.
> 
> 3.  Cripple the configure in port A so that it doesn't autodetect for
> package B.  (Sometimes this can be done using a suitable CONFIGURE_ARGS,
> but not in my particular situation.)

4. Add OPTION PACKAGE_B. And cripple configure through EXTRA_PATCH if
set to off.


-- 
Mel