KOMATSU Shinichiro wrote: > > (add To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > From: Garrett Rooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Who broke 'make clean' for ports ? > Date: Sat, May 11, 2002 at 02:31:32AM JST > > > there's a circular dependency that was just introduced to gettext. > > gettext now depends on expat, which depends on gmake, which depends on > > gettext. > > Recently, I wrote a patch for bsd.port.mk that checks circular dependency. > If a dependency loop is found, it gives you a warning and > does not invoke 'make' process any further. > > Someone, please test the patch below. > If no problem is found, I will send-pr(8).
I don't think that we really need such patch. In 99.9999% of cases it would just waste CPU cycles. Circular dependency is a bug and as such it doesn't need to be a supported "special case". -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
