Subject: Re: missing dependence in comms/jpilot?
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 06/17/2006 21:00:52
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:57:01 +0200, Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 02:25:00PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > While rebuilding comms/jpilot, I received the following error:
> > 
> > checking for perl... /usr/pkg/bin/perl
> > checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is require
> > d for intltool
> > *** Error code 1
> >  
> > Stop.
> > make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/comms/jpilot
> > 
> > 
> > I manually installed textproc/p5-XML-Parser and it was happy; what's not clear
> > to me, though, is whether the dependency should be on jpilot or
> > intltool.  (This is part of a "rebuild everything out of date" effort,
> > using pkgsrc HEAD from today, lintpkgsrc -i, and pkgdepgraph.)
> 
> This error usually signifies a missing include of intltool/buildlink3.mk.

Yes, that did it.  I'm ready to commit the fix -- but do I bump the package
revision number?  It affects a build-time dependency, not a run-time one,
so I'd guess not.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb