Re: Circular dependency (cwrappers) when bootstrapping on Linux

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2019-10-10 at 12:37 BST, Frédéric Fauberteau wrote:

> Le 2017-10-22 16:34, Benny Siegert a écrit :
> > On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Sevan Janiyan <venture37%geeklan.co.uk@localhost>
> > wrote:
> > > Ah, ok. I was thinking that the problem possibly lies in the
> > > combination of
> > > "--prefer-pkgsrc --cwrappers no".
> > 
> > Perhaps. As Maya noted on Twitter, part of the problem is that there
> > is no /usr/bin/diff (though I do have diffutils from Chromebrew in
> > /usr/local), so it builds diffutils.
> 
> I just run into this problem on Arch Linux. There was no diff and a circular
> dependency on cwrappers occured when I boostrapped pkgsrc. "./bootstrap
> --prefer-pkgsrc yes --cwrappers no" resolved the problem.

bsd.pkg.mk unconditionally includes check/bsd.check-vars.mk, which
unconditionally adds USE_TOOLS+=diff.  We should probably limit that,
at least for bootstrap.

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