Re: lang/rust: resurrect PORT_LLVM as a non-default OPTION

From: Charlie Li <vishwin_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 23:28:53 UTC
Mark Millard wrote:
> My understanding is that building a devel/llvm* these days requires
> building rust first, via needing to build python things (for
> documentation purposes?), that in turn need rust to have been built
> first. Last I knew, trying to disable the llvm* DOCS option in a
> normal way did not avoid the "needs rust" issue.
> 
This is no longer necessary.
> Absent use of a workaround to avoid this, it would seem to be
> problematical to use PORT_LLVM for rust if the llvm* in question
> would itself need to be built.
> 
The circular dependency was removed by default in ports commit 
761dc8a9f4ddef2adad122a57a477e65457582fb. It was an OPTION that should 
not have been default for other reasons.

-- 
Charlie Li
...nope, still don't have an exit line.