Chris Inacio wrote: > I wanted to add an option to multiple ports - that is easy. But, those > ports have a dependency relationship, and I only want the last node in the > port dependency graph to build with that option if the requisite ports have > too. > > In real terms: > > net/spread <- net/libfixbuf <- net-mgmt/yaf > > I added a SPREAD option to net/libfixbuf & to net-mgmt/yaf. net-mgmt/yaf > can only build a Spread version if libfixbuf was built with a Spread > version. > > Question 1) How do you construct such that if a user goes into > net-mgmt/yaf chooses Spread and fixbuf isn't already installed, it builds > fixbuf with the spread option? > > Question 2) How do you ensure that if fixbuf is already installed, it has > the Spread option enabled, or disallow/error the Yaf Spread option?
One way to do this is to create a separate port net/libfixbuf-spread that either installs separate libfixbuf-spread.so or just conflicts with net/libfixbuf, and then make net-mgmt/yaf depend on that if SPREAD option is on. _______________________________________________ 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"