Quoting Alex Dupre <a...@freebsd.org> (from Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:08:39 +0100):
Alexander Leidinger wrote:
When I made the EXPLICIT_PACKAGE_DEPENDS patch, I noticed that there is
not only libtool at fault (reaction of the libtool developers was IIRC:
it's not trivial to fix known problems for the cross-building case (for
libtool-1.x?)), but also pkg-config and similar things
Yes, I know, it's correct what you say, but this doesn't prevent to
improve things. I'm not saying that tomorrow we'll have a perfect
I didn't tell it to prevent things. Just to make sure everyone knows
the state of afairs.
ports tree where all and only direct dependencies will be listed,
but if we don't even start...
Currently we have exactly the opposite case: ports that have direct
(maybe not needed) dependencies to libraries that are not recorded
in Makefiles. This is the root cause of "portmaster -r" or
aggressive bumps.
It could be an option to call the script in each tinderbox build and
verify the result with what is available in LIB_DEPENDS. This would
require extending the script with recent additions to USE_GNOME,
USE_X11, ...
Bye,
Alexander.
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