On Nov 4, 2018, at 08:14, Christopher Jones wrote:
>> I don't know about java, but the python portgroup deliberately disables the
>> ability to download dependencies. We don't want ports to download things
>> except during the fetch phase. And if a port has dependencies on other
>> ports, it should declare them. It looks like py-tensorflow already declares
>> a dependency on py-six, so there should be no reason for it to need to
>> download six again. If its build system is hardcoded to do so anyway, you
>> could patch it to stop it from doing that.
>
> I would like to be able to do this but the bazel build system that
> py-tensorflow uses is not designed to allow it easily. It positively insists
> on controlling all aspects of the build, including dependencies. It was
> enough of a battle to get it to use macports provided compilers, when needed….
>
> I am not saying it is impossible, I just do not know how. See for instance
>
> https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/external.html
>
> Its just really really complicated and frankly I don’t have the enthusiasm to
> work out how to do it…
>
> bazel and py-tensorflow currently build fine, albeit with their own
> dependencies, when Oracle’s JDK 10+ is installed. I am just looking at the
> moment to allow OpenJDK to be used as well.
Ah, ok. I'm not familiar with bazel. Here's how downloading dependencies was
disabled in the python portgroup:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/a0833320f5342a0876a8a5c59320feedc8d87411
What you're seeing is probably unrelated then, but you could try reverting that
change to make sure.
