PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND and some gnome ports

Oliver Eikemeier eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Sat Apr 17 04:40:35 PDT 2004


Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> on which assumption is the following statement based:
> ===>  Configuring for gnomevfs2-2.6.0_1
> gnomevfs2-2.6.0_1: bind installed with PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND causes build 
> problems.
> If I comment out the pre-configure target:
> ===>   Registering installation for gnomevfs2-2.6.0_1
> ===>  Building package for gnomevfs2-2.6.0_1
> Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/gnomevfs2-2.6.0_1.tbz
> 
> So no problem.
> 
> The same assumption has been made in www/firefox, which also builds correctly 
> for me.
> Maybe this should be a message, along the lines of "If you get the following 
> build error ...., you cannot install this port or deinstall the bind9-base 
> port", because now it seems like FUD to me.

Try PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND8_INCLUDES. We can't check this from the Makefile
though, but better be safe than sorry - it caused problems in the past.

-Oliver


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