Robert Schwebel wrote: > It's a conceptual thing: packets with huge dependencies for system > libraries like python do a lot of autoprobing (find out if libsomething > is there, then build the python wrappers for it). So if Python is built > early, it finds less libraries than when it is built late.
you "just" have to add all dependencies libs and the corresponding --with/without and/or --enable/disable switches.... > We maybe need something like a separation into libs and apps, then build > all libs first and then all apps. But I doubt it will catch all cases, > as there are surely packets out there which are both, lib and app. > Could you look how other distributions handle that case? It may give us > some hints what to do. gentoo has useflags. It a globaly "i want to use readline" or "i don't want to use it" Marc -- Dipl.-Ing. Marc Kleine-Budde | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 Hannoversche Str. 2, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-9 -- ptxdist mailing list ptxdist@pengutronix.de