On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 10:36 PM Nikolaj Thygesen
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> When compiling lang/swipl it is required to run.
>
> /usr/local/bin/uuid-config --cflags | --ldflags
>
> ... as part of deducing header / library placement of misc/ossp-uuid. This is
> all part of the cmake setup of lang/swipl, and currently I use an awful patch
> to hardcode something in the cmake file pre-make - but this file actually
> allows one to set a variable - $LibUUID_ROOT - to the path of uuid-config
> from the outside. I have successfully experimented with this, so I added:
>
> BUILD_DEPENDS= uuid-config:misc/ossp-uuid
>
> .. to the makefile. Now my question is: How do I properly get to the pathname
> of uuid-config?? In order to pass it to cmake somewhat like (pseudo):
>
> CMAKE_ARGS= -DLibUUID_ROOT=${which uuid-config:sh:H}
The proper and canonical solution for this problem is
-DLibUUID_ROOT=${LOCALBASE}
Ports should expect their dependencies to be installed under ${LOCALBASE}.
