Re: How to use bin-install along with package

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 07:38:02PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> It seems that "make bin-install package" compiles a package twice.
> 
> I'd like to make the most number of packages possible, so how does one make
> each dependency in to a binary package, but only if a binary package doesn't
> exist, then make the selected package in to a binary package, after
> compiling just once?
> 
> Do we need a new target that does what one would expect "make bin-install
> package" should do?

Does this do what you want?

make DEPENDS_TARGET=bin-install install-depends
make bin-install

bin-install needs a package to install, so if one doesn't exist yet,
it should build one first.
 Thomas