On 2018/06/03 17:16, Edward Lopez-Acosta wrote: > Thanks Landry and Stuart, > > With that information I tried to add a little bit of clarity to the man page > using my understanding of those options. Never written a man page before so > it was an interesting experience. > > If this looks good would it be possible to get this merged for future > releases? > > --- port-modules.5.orig Sun Jun 3 16:12:15 2018 > +++ port-modules.5 Sun Jun 3 17:07:11 2018 > @@ -1339,19 +1339,29 @@ > .Ev MODPY_RUN_DEPENDS , > .Ev MODPY_BUILD_DEPENDS > and > -.Ev MODPY_ADJ_FILES . > -Appends to > +.Ev MODPY_ADJ_FILES.
that space should be there, and the other .Ev you've added with punctuation immediately at the end should have spaces added > +.Ev MODPY_RUN_DEPENDS, > +and > +.Ev MODPY_BUILD_DEPENDS > +append to > .Ev RUN_DEPENDS > -unless > -.Ev MODPY_RUNDEP > -is set to No. > -Appends to > +and > .Ev BUILD_DEPENDS > unless > +.Ev MODPY_RUNDEP > +or > .Ev MODPY_BUILDDEP > is set to No or > .Ev NO_BUILD > -is set to Yes. > +is set to Yes. The depends options are primarily > +used with port submodules, otherwise > +.Ev RUN_DEPENDS > +or > +.Ev BUILD_DEPENDS > +should be used. new sentence -> new line there's no such thing as "port submodules" what you've added is pretty unclear, it makes it sound like the user should add something to MODPY_RUN_DEPENDS. it's not for that at all, it provides a string which can be added to "RUN_DEPENDS-subpackage". > +.Ev MODPY_RUN_DEPENDS, > +is set automatically to the required versions of Python and > +py-setuptools as applicable. > .Ev MODPY_VERSION > is the default version used by all python modules. > Ports which use the setuptools module should set I don't think this really adds anything. Really I feel if you're using a port module you should read the .mk file in conjunction with port-modules(5), the latter can talk about things which need a bit of extra explanation, but the problems you're running into can better be sorted out with reference to a few existing python ports..
