Wrong BUILD_DEPENDS behaviour
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Sun May 25 04:17:20 PDT 2003
On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 01:12:26PM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote:
> The bsd.port.mk file says:
>
> # BUILD_DEPENDS - A list of "path:dir[:target]" tuples of other ports this
> # package depends to build (between the "extract" and
> # "build" stages, inclusive).
>
> For me this means extract, patch, configure and build stages.
This comment is out of date. It now only refers to the build stage only.
> Consider a fresh FreeBSD installation that requires the sed_inplace port
> and a port who define USE_REINPLACE to sed something in the post-patch
> stage. The sed_inplace port will not be installed before the configure
> stage and the build will fail in patch stage.
You're right - in fact imp already submitted the patch to fix this
(change BUILD_DEPENDS to PATCH_DEPENDS) and was given approval to
commit it, but he didn't do it in time for the freeze.
Kris
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