On Mar 1, 2018, at 09:50, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> The builds failed on the buildbot, which is how I noticed the problem. On >> the buildbot, we activate the dependencies and then make sure the >> dependencies' build dependencies are deactivated before building the port, >> thus exposing the problem. > > When exactly do we do that? I'm not aware of it. This is the script > being called: > https://github.com/macports/mpbb/blob/master/mpbb-install-dependencies > > I do remember some special handling of dependencies, but I fail to see > when the build dependencies would be deactivated. > > We certainly remove dependencies between builds, but I'm not aware of > uninstallation of build dependencies. And in any case the go scripts > ultimately call mpbb, so if we change mpbb, it should automatically be > reflected in Travis as well.
I thought I had seen some output in a buildbot log at some point that suggested this is what we were doing. But I guess I misinterpreted the log, and we're not doing that after all.
