Re: pkg/42337: misc/mousetweaks does not take into account all its dependences after its bump to version 2.28.1

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42337; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/42337: misc/mousetweaks does not take into account all its 
dependences after its bump to version 2.28.1
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:52:51 -0500

 On 2009-11-18, at 2:00 AM, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 >On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:40:00AM +0000, dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost 
 >wrote:
 >>Try building misc/mousetweaks if these unrecorded dependencies aren't
 >>already installed.
 >
 >Which version of the recorded dependencies do you have installed?
 
 I didn't have any version of libxcb or xcb-util installed.  I had an
 older version of nspr installed (4.6.-something I think).
 
 >>Add them as dependencies in the make file.
 
 >This is not the correct solution. They are not directly needed by
 >mousetweaks.
 
 Ah, okay.  (I installed them to make the build process happy.)
 
 >Usually this error happens when some buildlink3.mk file wants to pull
 >them in, but there are no DEPENDS for them (any longer?) in the
 >corresponding packages, so they are not installed.
 > Thomas
 
 I'd built a whole bunch of other gnome-related packages without
 encountering this, but then had done another cvs update to pick up more
 updates to the 2.28 series, so something must've changed then, I'm
 guessing.
 
 Regards,
 
 Dave