ports/79011: [PATCH] USE_MYSQL breaks dependency tracking

[Edwin Groothuis]

The following reply was made to PR ports/79011; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des at des.no>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/79011: [PATCH] USE_MYSQL breaks dependency tracking
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 00:37:58 +1100

 On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 02:14:58PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
 > If USE_MYSQL is set to a version which is not currently present in the
 > ports tree, the port is marked BROKEN.  This makes it impossible to use
 > 'make -VLIB_DEPENDS' in a partial tree to determine which dependencies
 > need updating, and breaks porteasy.
 
 As usual, partial trees are "not supported". You either play the
 game according to the rules or you break the system and own both
 halves.
 
 It also will break with a tree where parts of the auto* and libtool
 ports are missing.
 
 Edwin
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