autodetecting dependencies

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

On 04/09/12 21:56, Mel Flynn wrote:
> On 4/10/2012 04:02, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
>> 1.  Don't worry about it.  tinderbox builds will never build port A in
>> the presence of package B.
>>
>> 2.  Have the Makefile of port A detect whether package B is installed,
>> and if it is then add B as a dependency of A.
>>
>> 3.  Cripple the configure in port A so that it doesn't autodetect for
>> package B.  (Sometimes this can be done using a suitable CONFIGURE_ARGS,
>> but not in my particular situation.)
>
> 4. Add OPTION PACKAGE_B. And cripple configure through EXTRA_PATCH if
> set to off.
>
>



Package B doesn't seem to offer any extra functionality to port A.  I 
ended up going with option 3, because it turned out to be easier than I 
thought it would be.