BUILD_DEPENDS= RUN_DEPENDS=

[Bryan Drewery]

On 05/14/2012 11:10 PM, b. f. wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was trying to append to these in my /etc/make.conf and found that a
>> large (thousands) number of ports are using = instead of +=, thus
>> destroying any user-supplied depends.
>>
>> The use case for wanting to do this is to force devel/ccache to be a
>> build dependency on all ports, for package building. Or to force in a
>> particular library along with LDFLAGS into particular ports. This is
>> achievable by modifying bsd.local.mk, but is not ideal.
>>
>> This goes along with updating all CLFAGS/LDFLAGS to use += instead of =.
>>
>> If there is no objection to this route, I will follow-up with a patch/PR
>> to update the ports and handbook.
> 
> Only those user-supplied depends that are added in makefiles included
> before those lines are parsed (like make.conf) can be affected. But
> there are a number of other makefiles that exist solely for
> customizations like you describe -- you mentioned one of them,
> bsd.local.mk.  It is safer and more efficient to move as many of your
> customizations as possible out of make.conf, and into these other
> makefiles, as was intended.  "+=" was used for a few other variables
> because these few were often already defined in make.conf for other
> reasons -- but we are trying to discourage abuse of make.conf, so
> making a large number of unnecessary changes to make it possible for
> further additions to make.conf is a bad idea.
> 
> b.

Alright sounds good. I'll drop the endeavor and stick to bsd.local.mk.

Thanks!

Regards,
Bryan Drewery