> On Mar 31, 2014, at 20:32, Jamie Landeg-Jones <ja...@dyslexicfish.net> wrote: > > Hi. Many ports that require gnutls fail if security/gnutls3 and not > security/gnutls are installed. > > ( E.G. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=186785 ) > > Whilst seemingly gnutls and gnutls3 can co-exist, the ports > that depend on gnutls being installed pass the lib dependency > when seeing the gnutls3 install, so therefore don't pull in > security/gnutls > > Then, the ports themselves fail to build as pkg-config looks > for "gnutls" whilst only "gnutls3" exists. > > As far as I can see, the options are: > > 1) Make ports depend on a particular library revision, > so pulling in security/gnutls > > or: > > 2) Replace gnutls with gnutls3
We will be doing (2) soon. > > or: > > 3) Use a bit of bsd.port.Mk magic to handle this situation - so that > if only gnutls3 is installed, the port will build correctly > against it. Perhaps we can fix it in the short term too. > > I don't know the roadmap for depreciating gnutls2 but if it's a > while yet, I'd guess option 3) is the best? > > Any thoughts? > > Cheers, > Jamie _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
