Re: Graph cycles through ---- audio/squeezebox builds forever

[John Marino <marino%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 11/30/2011 12:13 AM, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> I can't read joerg's thoughts better than yourself, but I debug
> slightly differently than you:
>
> # make show-var VARNAME=DEPENDS
> {perl>=5.6.0,p5-PathTools>=0.80}:../../devel/p5-PathTools  
> perl>=5.14.0:../../lang/perl5 perl<5.16.0:../../lang/perl5
> #  make show-var VARNAME=BUILD_DEPENDS
> {perl>=5.7.3,p5-Test-Simple>=0.47}:../../devel/p5-Test-Simple 
> {perl>=5.6.0,p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker>=0.30}:../../devel/p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
>
> The DEPENDS show that this package already needs perl>=5.14, so the
> BUILD_DEPENDS' pattern of {perl>=5.7.3,something else} will always be
> fulfilled by perl and the rest of it is ignored. At least that's how I
> think it's generally supposed to work.
>
> No idea what tinderbox does differently here, but I guess it just
> takes the path after the colon.
>   Thomas
Yes, that's exactly what Tinderbox is doing.  I had not seen this "OR" 
functionality before, it's probably unique to pkgsrc (meaning
FreeBSD ports doesn't have it, so Tinderbox wouldn't handle it.)  I 
should be able to modify the handling for this pearl case.  In
general this "OR" functionality is going to be hard to handle.  Does it 
have wide-spread use outside of perl?
Thanks for the explanation, it's clearer now.
John