Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > Am 01.04.2009 um 13:23 schrieb Sebastian Kayser: >> are there any thoughts underway to enable straight-forward builds of >> CPAN packages that have not-yet-installed dependencies (which need >> to be >> built also)? >> >>> From looking at the category.mk for the cpan category it seems as if >> this had been working with spool* directories of GAR, but as mGAR >> has a >> separate $(DESTDIR) for each package it doesn't work with mGAR. >> >> $ svn pg svn:externals . >> gar https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/gar/v2 >> >> $ ggrep -C1 ^PERL5LIB gar/categories/cpan/category.mk >> # Enable scripts to see prereqs >> PERL5LIB = $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/perl/csw >> PERL5LIB := $(PERL5LIB):$(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/perl/csw >> export PERL5LIB >> >> I just built ack [1] which relied on File-Next (not yet in the >> catalog, >> nor on the build farm). To satisfy this dependency I built File-Next, >> manually copied it to a temporary directory, and pointed PERL5LIB to >> this directory when building ack. > > The official way is to build the dependency, release it, have it > installed on the farm and continue with the next package. > > Maybe we find in October ("CPAN Coverage") a more viable solution. > I guess with this runtime pathes and the stable release there are > other things to be done first...
Indeed. Was just wondering whether there might have been a more elegant way to do it ATM. Thanks for the response. Sebastian _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
