Re: BUILD_DEPENDS and external pkgsrc tools

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost> wrote:

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 07:49:56PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> Aleksey Cheusov just alerted me to a problem that my recent changes
> for cross-compilation causes: External tools operating on pkgsrc may
> want to examine BOOTSTRAP_DEPENDS, BUILD_DEPENDS, and DEPENDS in order
> to find all dependencies, but now there's an extra TOOL_DEPENDS which
> they have to know about.

I don't think cross-building is going to be possible without separating
into TOOL_DEPENDS and BUILD_DEPENDS, and I think it's a backwards step
to conflate them.

Taylor forgot one _critical_ thing I said. I asked him to provide backward compatibility
for _native_ non-cross builds. I'm fine with TOOL_DEPENDS+BUILD_DEPENDS
for cross builds.

> He suggested that for native builds, we should just move everything in
> TOOL_DEPENDS to BUILD_DEPENDS to avoid breaking these tools. I'm not
> sure yet where this would go.

Unless you do so, we won't see bulk builds result anymore ;-)

pbulk and distbb depends on DEPENDS and BUILD_DEPENDS.

>
> Thoughts? How stable are these pkgsrc variables/internals supposed to be?

pbulk and distbb are stable enough. There are others.