How to best check a configuration of another port/package?

2019-06-08 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
In https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237688 we had a user report against lang/gcc* ports that could be traced back to a certain functionality (option) in another port (devel/binutils) missing. In pseudo-code this could be addressed as follows in lang/gcc* .if $(binutils built

Re: How to best check a configuration of another port/package?

2019-06-08 Thread Adam Weinberger
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 10:02 AM Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > In https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237688 we had > a user report against lang/gcc* ports that could be traced back to > a certain functionality (option) in another port (devel/binutils) > missing. > > In pseudo-code this c

Re: How to best check a configuration of another port/package?

2019-06-08 Thread Mel Pilgrim
On 2019-06-08 9:57, Adam Weinberger wrote: On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 10:02 AM Gerald Pfeifer wrote: In https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237688 we had a user report against lang/gcc* ports that could be traced back to a certain functionality (option) in another port (devel/binutil

Re: How to best check a configuration of another port/package?

2019-06-09 Thread Adam Weinberger
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 11:00 PM Mel Pilgrim wrote: > > On 2019-06-08 9:57, Adam Weinberger wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 10:02 AM Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > >> > >> In https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237688 we had > >> a user report against lang/gcc* ports that could be traced

Re: How to best check a configuration of another port/package?

2019-06-13 Thread Steve Wills
Hi, On 6/9/19 11:48 AM, Adam Weinberger wrote: No, you're absolutely right. Flavours is the right way to do it now. I keep forgetting about them, because I don't in any way understand how to use them. Hmm, flavors have to be something that can be installed in parallel, right? How does that i

Re: How to best check a configuration of another port/package?

2019-06-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 13/06/2019 17:00, Steve Wills wrote: Hmm, flavors have to be something that can be installed in parallel, right? How does that impact binutils? They don't /have/ to be something that can be installed in parallel. Different flavours of the same package can conflict with each other. Look at