On 2021/01/21 06:43, Bjorn Ketelaars wrote:
> On Wed 20/01/2021 21:42, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 20 2021, Bjorn Ketelaars <b...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> > > (Maintainer timeout)
> > >
> > > ocaml is currently a RDEP for all ports that are build with it. This is
> > > unnecessary for a couple of them, i.e. net/unison.
> >
> > As far as I know, programs written in OCaml should run without the OCaml
> > runtime installed on ${OCAML_NATIVE_ARCHS}, currently i386 and amd64.
> > Except for OCaml programs that make direct use of the OCaml runtime, of
> > course... But the rundep is still needed on non-native archs.
> >
> > > I would like to
> > > propose the addition of MODOCAML_RUNDEP and MODOCAML_BUILDDEP, which are
> > > modelled on python.port.mk.
> > >
> > > Default behaviour is not changed. Setting MODOCAML_RUNDEP=No in a
> > > Makefile excludes ocaml as RDEP.
> > >
> > > OK?
> >
> > Your diff makes sense I think, but you can't just use it to
> > disable the run-dep in net/unison: you'd break unison installs on
> > non-native archs.
>
> Oops, I didn't think about the above.
>
> I will look further for a fitting, clean solution that serves all
> arches.
>
Maybe allow MODOCAML_RUNDEP=yes/no/nonative or some similar thing?
It would be nice to handle the arch detection in ocaml.port.mk rather
than in any port using this.
