RUN_DEPENDS=: not respected? Bug?

[Alex Dupre]

O. Hartmann ha scritto:
> Working on a small port for OpenCL support for CPUs via "freeocl",
> I run into a problem (runing FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT).
> 
> The port requires devel/libatomic_ops, which installs a static library
> /usr/lcoal/lib/libatomic_ops.a.
> 
> Following the instructions in the Porter's Handbook for FreeBSD, I added
> a line
> 
> RUN_DEPENDS=
> ${LOCALBASE}/lib/libatomic_ops.a:${PORTSDIR}/devel/libatomic_ops

It seems strange to me that a port requires a static library at runtime.
You should use BUILD_DEPENDS if the library is needed to build the port.
And you shouldn't put if after inclusion of bsd.port.pre.mk.
RUN_DEPENDS is for things required at runtime and so usually installed
in the install step.

-- 
Alex Dupre