On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 03:01:57PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 07:47:27PM -0500, George Koehler wrote:
> > These 3 ports have WRKSRC/docs/reference/meson.build calling
> > dependency('mm-common-libstdc++', required: false). This will try
> > pkg-config with mm-common-libstdc++.pc (which would exist in
> > devel/mm-common), then cmake with Findmm-common-libstdc++.cmake,
> > says https://mesonbuild.com/Dependencies.html
> >
> > The project looks for mm-common-libstdc++ though it will never get
> > used: it is only for building docs with doxygen, but by default,
> > the project never builds the docs.
> >
> > I have not proposed a fix to this problem. I only know to retry the
> > "make configure" if meson fails.
>
> One thing that would be cool to know is whether it is limited to "configure".
>
> Ports can currently be annotated with nojunk for dpb, which leads to dpb
> refusing to junk ports during the full build.
>
> adding meson as full "nojunk" might be impractical, there are currently
> 222 meson ports as
> select count(distinct(pkgpath)) from _modules join _modulekeys on
> keyref=_modules.value join paths on pathid=_modules.fullpkgpath where
> _modulekeys.value='devel/meson';
> shows
>
> including a few fairly common dependencies which may slow down dpb a great
> deal.
>
> I realize I already added support code to dpb, though that is not
> documented because it's not been used and tested so far.
> DPB_PROPERTIES = noconfigurejunk
>
> might be what meson ports might need!
Yes, that looks like a good idea.
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Antoine
