Can't compile www/node on rpi2

[Bradley T. Hughes]

On 2019-03-26 19:07, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 00:24, Bradley T. Hughes <bhughes at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 2019-03-26 03:14, bob prohaska wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:23:26PM +0100, Bradley T. Hughes wrote:
>>
>> Looks like you need to upgrade www/libnghttp2 as well. :)
>>
>>> Thanks for reading, I'd be pleased to try any experiments suggested.
>>
>> In general, www/node requires that all dependencies are up-to-date. The
>> port doesn't explicitly list minimum versions of its dependencies, but I
>> am beginning to think that it should (this is not the first time I have
>> seen this kind of problem).
> 
> You shouldn't have to list the minimum version for dependencies. If
> someone is following the tip of the ports tree, it is expected that
> all the port dependencies are up to date when building a port. All the
> port-management tools in ports-mgmt assume this, and build
> port-dependancies as required. When building ports, it is always best
> to use one of the build-tools (ie: poudriere, synth , portmaster)
> instead of by hand.

I may not have to, no, but since I have had a couple of reports about 
build errors due to out-of-date dependencies, I can help out fellow 
users by giving them a helpful message instead of a daunting build error.

Right? :)

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Bradley T. Hughes
bhughes at freebsd.org