Hi Ryan, On 27/10/2014, at 1:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Oct 26, 2014, at 9:03 PM, Ian Wadham wrote: >> On 27/10/2014, at 12:10 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> On Oct 26, 2014, at 7:10 PM, Marko Käning wrote: >>> >>>> Ryan, any suggestions? >>> >>> My suggestions are: >>> >>> We try to avoid variant names beginning with "no". We try to use variant >>> names that >>> mention enabling something, rather than names that mention disabling >>> something. >> >> No problem with that… :-) >> >>> When there is a variant that aids in debugging a program, it is typically >>> named "debug". >> >> With all due respect, Ryan (and my respect for you is very great), please >> not this hoary >> old chestnut… :-) > > I didn't realize this topic was hoary or a chestnut! > > >> Variants in MacPorts are global in scope, which means that variants like >> "debug" and >> also "docs" get applied to *every* dependency, back as far as Sumerian clay >> tablets… :-) >> With KDE and Qt having such a long list of dependencies, well… > > Well, variants are passed on to *uninstalled* dependencies. If dependencies > are already installed, they're not rebuilt with that variant. So if you don't > want the variant passed down to uninstalled dependencies, install the > dependencies first. For example, you could install the port normally first, > without the debug variant, which would install all needed dependencies. Then > you can reinstall the port with the +debug variant and only that port will be > built with the debug variant.
Well, I just tried that and here is what happened… Tara:~>sudo port install palapeli +debug ---> Computing dependencies for palapeli ---> Fetching archive for palapeli ---> Attempting to fetch palapeli-4.13.3_0+debug.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/palapeli ---> Attempting to fetch palapeli-4.13.3_0+debug.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from http://jog.id.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/palapeli ---> Attempting to fetch palapeli-4.13.3_0+debug.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from http://nue.de.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/palapeli ---> Fetching distfiles for palapeli ---> Attempting to fetch palapeli-4.13.3.tar.xz from http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/kde/stable/4.13.3/src ---> Verifying checksums for palapeli ---> Extracting palapeli Error: org.macports.extract for port palapeli returned: ERROR: In order to install this port as +debug, Qt4 must also be installed with +debug. Cheers, Ian W. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
