On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 02:40:11PM +0100, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Scot Hetzel escribió: > >On 12/11/07, Paul Schenkeveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>So now I have a need for a metaport to depend on another metaport. > >>Without DEPENDS, how do I accomplish that. Using RUN_DEPENDS with > >>${NONEXISTENT} seems not appropriate here, the Porters Handbook says > >>that this should only be used to pull in source, not to install another > >>metaport (unless it is already installed) and the effect of using > >>something like RUN_DEPENDS=${NONEXISTENT}:${PORTSDIR}/lang/php5-extensions > >>causes make install to try installing php5-extensions even when this port > >>is already installed. > >> > >>The two metaport I need to depend on are php5-extensions and > >>xorg-drivers and I really don't want to copy the OPTIONS processing of > >>these ports and maintain that in the future. > >> > >> > > > >For xorg-drivers you simply use: > > > >RUN_DEPENDS= > >${LOCALBASE}/libdata/xorg/drivers:${PORTSDIR}/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers > > > >to get this to work for php5-extensions, you would need to patch the > >Makefile with: > > > >PLIST_FILES= libdata/php5/extensions > >PLIST_DIR= libdata/php5 > > > >do-install: > > ${MKDIR} ${PREFIX}/libdata/php5 > > ${TOUCH} ${PREFIX}/libdata/php5/extensions > > > >Then you could use: > > > >RUN_DEPENDS= > >${LOCALBASE}/libdata/php5/extensions:${PORTSDIR}/lang/php5-extensions > > > Or what about just depending on the specific components of > php5-extensions? This would reasult in more lines, but would give you a > better way to fine-tune the dependencies and won't result in > unnecessarily installed ports for the user. Or do you really need the > whole bunch of extensions that php5-extensions offers?
No, I want to use the OPTIONS facility of php5-extensions so I cannot depend on individual ports as each individual port may be disabled during make config. -- Paul Schenkeveld _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"